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Subject: About style
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:50:29 +0100
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Hello,

An quote from the JLint distribution, which is README says (JSlint is fo=
r  =

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 spac=
es
> 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.

-- =

Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es=
t pas pour  =

les chiens.

=E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]