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Subject: Re: Ada, the best language with the not-so-best tool chain
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 12:57:48 +0200
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Date: 2012-10-20T12:57:48+02:00
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Le Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:28:59 +0200, Brian Drummond  =

<brian@shapes.demon.co.uk> a =C3=A9crit:
> 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 agi=
le
> programming, refactoring, and so on.

It's already good at refactoring. And to me, agile is quasi=E2=80=91perm=
anent  =

refactoring. This may not appears in course presenting top=E2=80=91down =
approach,  =

but that's not that hard to guess error checking is an aid for refactori=
ng  =

and agile. There's no need for a big book, just tell =E2=80=9Cremember t=
he 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.=E2=80=9D. When testing is so many time used to wor=
karound  =

the lack of type checking (should really be a fundamental basis to  =

everyone) and proper dependency declaration between modules, =E2=80=A6. =
You see,  =

it needs just two sentences.

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity