From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: About style
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:50:29 +0100
Date: 2011-03-04T23:50:29+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.vruceftsule2fv@douda-yannick> (raw)
Hello,
An quote from the JLint distribution, which is README says (JSlint is for
JavaScript, but the quote applies well to Ada I feel) :
> The place to express yourself in programming is in the quality of your
> ideas,
> and the efficiency of execution. The role of style is the same as in
> literature. A great writer doesn't express himself by putting the spaces
> before his commas instead of after, or by putting extra spaces inside his
> parentheses. A great writer will slavishly conform to some rules of
> style,
> and that in no way constrains his power to express himself creatively.
> See for example William Strunk's The Elements of Style
> [http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/style.html].
That said, I still know how it's difficult to try to define an Ada
Standard Style which would please everyone.
--
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les chiens.
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2011-03-04 22:50 Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2011-03-04 23:41 ` About style Bill Findlay
2011-03-05 0:14 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-03-05 1:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-05 9:53 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-07 4:56 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-07 5:13 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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