From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Inspirels Ada on cortex tutorial linker issue
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 11:58:59 -0000 (UTC)
Date: 2016-09-03T11:58:59+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nqedu3$ob7$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3eb92410-d774-40b3-b4b5-a1f0e8417dfc@googlegroups.com
On Fri, 02 Sep 2016 06:40:40 -0700, AdaMagica wrote:
> Am Freitag, 2. September 2016 14:05:24 UTC+2 schrieb Maciej Sobczak:
>> Then somebody else must have written the Ada code that I can see now,
>> which is so heavily attached to the hardware (including packing of
>> pointer values in record fields of forced sizes) that it is probably
>> easier to rewrite it than port to any other target.
>> Language is a tool, you still need good engineering principles to use
>> it properly.
>
> You're absolutely right. A good language does not force people to write
> good code.
>
> I've seen code like this:
>
> I: Integer;
> ...
> if I in Integer then ...
My favourite:
while (1 = 1) loop
...
end loop;
I imagine this was a creative response to a compiler error message
"expected type boolean; found type integer" from "while (1) loop"
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-23 5:23 Inspirels Ada on cortex tutorial linker issue Devin
2016-07-23 6:57 ` Simon Wright
2016-07-23 7:34 ` Devin
2016-07-23 8:07 ` Devin
2016-07-23 16:32 ` Simon Wright
2016-07-24 2:32 ` Devin
2016-07-24 7:41 ` Simon Wright
2016-07-25 4:35 ` Devin
2016-07-25 8:07 ` Simon Wright
2016-08-20 22:09 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-08-21 1:30 ` Devin
2016-08-21 1:37 ` Devin
2016-08-21 14:38 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-08-22 4:00 ` Devin
2016-08-22 11:37 ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-29 17:49 ` Nicholas Colin Paul de Gloucester
2016-08-29 21:51 ` rieachus
2016-08-30 14:55 ` Nicolas Colin Paul de Gloucester
2016-08-31 0:01 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-08-31 10:15 ` Simon Wright
2016-08-31 12:42 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-01 9:15 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-09-01 16:33 ` AdaMagica
2016-09-02 0:36 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-09-02 12:05 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-02 12:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-02 15:24 ` G.B.
2016-09-02 21:33 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-03 9:20 ` G.B.
2016-09-03 13:33 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-09-04 15:08 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-02 13:40 ` AdaMagica
2016-09-03 11:58 ` Brian Drummond [this message]
2016-09-03 12:12 ` Björn Lundin
2016-08-30 12:33 ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-30 13:01 ` Simon Wright
2016-08-30 15:06 ` Nicolas Colin Paul de Gloucester
2016-08-31 10:34 ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-31 20:58 ` Simon Wright
2016-09-01 11:08 ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-31 12:47 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-01 0:02 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-09-01 9:03 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
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