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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a85abd09f1d6fc89 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!cyclone.southeast.rr.com!news-server.columbus.rr.com!fe2.columbus.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John B. Matthews" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to write unmaintainable code References: <2004628-15815-988348@foorum.com> <7nWDc.97128$dP1.321329@newsc.telia.net> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.3b1 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 02:22:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.31.62.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: fe2.columbus.rr.com 1088475773 65.31.62.213 (Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:22:53 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:22:53 EDT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1990 Date: 2004-06-29T02:22:53+00:00 List-Id: In article <7nWDc.97128$dP1.321329@newsc.telia.net>, Bj�rn Persson wrote: > Ludovic Brenta wrote: > > > http://mindprod.com/unmainlanguage.html > > It also demonstrates how to write unreadable web pages. Yes, Roedy reminds me of Liberace: a tremendous talent if a tad gaudy:-) And remember, it's a tongue-in-cheek piece: "Avoid Ada : About 20% of these techniques can't be used in Ada. Refuse to use Ada. If your manager presses you, insist that no-one else uses it, and point out that it doesn't work with your large suite of tools like lint and plummer that work around C's failings." I'd say Ada helps me avoid a good 50% of the ways to write unmaintainable code. I have to face the other 50% in peer review:-) John ---- jmatthews at wright dot edu www dot wright dot edu/~john.matthews/