Re: no title

From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
To: <And838N@netscape.net>, <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Subject: Re: no title
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 05:50:38 -0500
Date: 2003-06-02T05:50:38-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.9.1054550992.12990.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38327B08.00A56F89.0015D3EC@netscape.net

----- Original Message -----
From: <And838N@netscape.net>
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: June 02, 2003 2:55 AM
Subject: no title

> Bobby Bryant wrote:
> >Also, it's not uncommon to find someone who tries to do "cute" things to
> >optimize some local operation for speed, but then embeds it in a horribly
> >inefficient exponential-time algorithm.
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> yeah, like bubble sort in assembler.  I shouldn't laugh.  I'll probably make this mistake once,
and hopefully ONLY once.
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> Thanks Robert for the information!  There is a lot there for me to investigate and learn!
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> In my "learning session" today I noticed that a lot of the current Ada procedures and functions
(dare I call them methods?) have those pesky '_'s in them.  Any plans in Ada200x for case
sensitivity?  Maybe a command line flag if you want to have case sensitivity.
No plans at all; it will NEVER happen!
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> The syntax could be less finger stretchy with all the '_'s and we could have toUnboundedString
instead of to_unbounded_string.  You could have x: Integer; and X: Integer;!!  What a bonus right?!
Just a thought.

Ada was designed for ease of reading, rather than ease of
writing, since programs are read my humans many moirï¿½ times than
they're read.

Many factors make up what is good style, from both performance
and human-readability points of view.

The Software Productivity Consortium has written the
Ada 95 Quality and Style Guide to explain these issues; an HTML
version is freely available at:
http://www.adaic.com/docs/95style/html/cover.html

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> Thanks again for the help!
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> Andrew
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