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On 05/09/2023 08:23, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2023-09-05 01:16, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> 
>> The term "abstraction" is usually taken to be more general than that so
>> as to include function (or procedural) abstraction.
> 
> These are means of software decomposition rather than abstraction (of 
> something).

They are both of these things, actually.

>
>> Ada is good at that, but the syntax is sufficiently cumbersome that I
>> think it discourages people from exploiting that part of the language.
>> Mind you, I am no Ada expert so maybe it's simpler to do than I think.
> 
> If the program does not resemble electric transmission noise, some 
> people call the language syntax cumbersome... (:-))

8-)

>> Here's my Ada solution:
>>
>> with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
>> with Ada.Containers.Ordered_Maps; use Ada.Containers;
>>
>> procedure Euler_26 is
>>
>>     function Period(Divisor: Positive) return Positive is
> 
> You cannot use a number here because the period may have leading zeros.
> 
>> I know it won't make this program shorter, but it would be interesting
>> to know how it might be done.
> 
> The goal of engineering is not making programs shorter, it is to make 
> them understandable, safer, reusable, maintainable, extensible, integrable.

Hear, hear!

Functionalists do seem to have an obsession with brevity at all costs.
It's very strange.

-- 
Bill F.