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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Inspirels Ada on cortex tutorial linker issue
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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