From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,f3bebae566a54cab X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: anon@att.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Some exciting new trends in concurrency and software design Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:45:25 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <8a5765ba-622a-42cd-9886-28ed7cfed31e@s17g2000yqs.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: anon@anon.org NNTP-Posting-Host: G8E5jHZUJVHNHFnkmBOhfQ.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 2.0 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20003 Date: 2011-06-22T09:45:25+00:00 List-Id: Taking a weekend break may clear your head that may help solve the problem but it can also cause you to forget how you were solving that problem. Plus, back in the day, some of the profs would say "It might be the best code in the world, but without comments its a grade of zero." Because even the prof may not remember which problem your working on. And it only take a few comments. In , steveh44 writes: >On Jun 20, 4:56=A0pm, jonathan wrote: > >> >> Functional programming doesn't appeal to me, > >I also tried FP, and I did not like it either. > >I could write some cool looking code, which does >something amazing in few lines, but when I come >back few days later and look at it, I find myself >struggling to understand it. > >FP seems to be good for short programs. But try to >build a large software system with it, and things >start falling apart quickly. > >Steve