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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,8d472879e3f609e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-02 03:49:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: no title Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 05:50:38 -0500 Organization: ENST, France Message-ID: References: <38327B08.00A56F89.0015D3EC@netscape.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1054550992 801 137.194.161.2 (2 Jun 2003 10:49:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 10:49:52 +0000 (UTC) To: , Return-Path: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38322 Date: 2003-06-02T05:50:38-05:00 ----- Original Message ----- From: To: 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. > > yeah, like bubble sort in assembler. I shouldn't laugh. I'll probably make this mistake once, and hopefully ONLY once. > > Thanks Robert for the information! There is a lot there for me to investigate and learn! > > 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! > > 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 moir� 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 > > Thanks again for the help! > > Andrew > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > McAfee Virus Online from the Netscape Network. > Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! > http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 > > Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! > http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 > _______________________________________________ > comp.lang.ado mailing list > comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org > http://ada.eu.org/mailman/listinfo/comp.lang.ada > >