Re: Ada programs depend on fonts (was: aunit?)

[Leon Winslow <leon.winslow@notes.udayton.edu>]

I agree but with one addition.  The great majority of the guidelines apply
to almost any third generation language, not just to Ada.  Furthermore,
reading the justifications give students a better feel for good
programming in genral.

For these reasons I have often made it required in many of my classes.

Lee Winslow

"David C. Hoos" wrote:

> Has anyone compared the GNAT style to the
> Ada 95 Quality and Style Guide:
> Guidelines for Professional Programmers
> available at:
> http://adaic.org/docs/95style/
>
> This style guide covers a lot more than code presentation
> (which is all that the GNAT style enforces).  It covers such
> equally-important subjects as naming conventions, concurrency,
> portability, performance, and a lot more.
>
> It also provides a rationale for each of its guidelines -- guidelines
> which, if followed, would produce more-readable, more-maintainable,
> and better-performing Ada programs.
>
> Just my $0.02 worth.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Leake" <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
> To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 12:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Ada programs depend on fonts (was: aunit?)
>
> <snip>
> > The point is for the entire Ada community to have exactly _one_
> > definition of good style, and _always_ use it. Then it is always
> > faster to convert everything to that _one_ style, or to simply write
> > in that style in the first place.
> >
> <snip>