Re: Ada, the best language with the not-so-best tool chain

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:28:59 +0200, Brian Drummond  
<brian@shapes.demon.co.uk> a écrit:
> One point that occurs while writing this : a lot of Ada textbooks
> approach Ada purely from a top down design model, that looks highly
> formal and very dated to either a hobbyist, or someone schooled in agile
> programming, refactoring, and so on.

It's already good at refactoring. And to me, agile is quasi‑permanent  
refactoring. This may not appears in course presenting top‑down approach,  
but that's not that hard to guess error checking is an aid for refactoring  
and agile. There's no need for a big book, just tell “remember the tones  
of stupid or vicious errors you had to fix during days of testing after  
you moved that from here to there? Ada would had caught near to all the  
error in in a second.”. When testing is so many time used to workaround  
the lack of type checking (should really be a fundamental basis to  
everyone) and proper dependency declaration between modules, …. You see,  
it needs just two sentences.

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“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University