Re: Ada requires too much typing!

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> Did you ever heard about Literate Programming ? What do you think
> about it in this area ? (possibly with editor support for that)

Your earlier remarks about LP reminded me of nuweb
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/nuweb/) and my desire to write more
extensive unit tests for the Booch Components
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/booch95/). 

nuweb-related work so far at http://public.me.com/simon.j.wright,
subdirectory lp/ - bc_tests.w is the web source, .pdf the readable
version of it, the .gpr and .ad[bs] files are the generated code.

One thing I find is that LP is fine for the overall description BUT you
have to get down to the detail at some point and there comes a time when
it really doesn't justify a lot of explanation. As an example, section
4.1 in bc_tests.pdf isn't too bad but sections 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 are just
boring.

Of course writing unit tests for several different versions of the same
concept is going to be boring anyway!