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Date: 2014-06-26T04:16:55+02:00
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Le Sat, 21 Jun 2014 10:35:52 +0200, Natasha Kerensikova  =

<lithiumcat@instinctive.eu> a =C3=A9crit:

> On 2014-06-20, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
>> "Natasha Kerensikova" <lithiumcat@instinctive.eu> wrote in message
>> news:slrnlq7oge.i0l.lithiumcat@nat.rebma.instinctive.eu...
>> ...
>>> The way I understand the whole situation is that ASIS provider  =

>>> diversity
>>> would be a good thing too (though not as much as compiler diversity)=
,
>>> and Gela is not too far from there, so pushing Gela forward would be=
 a
>>> good thing both globally and for my self-improvement.
>>
>> That would work, of course, but all of the hard stuff (well, almost a=
ll)
>> would be in the GELA ASIS front-end. And you'd have to do frequent
>> maintenance on the ASIS stuff if you wanted to actually compile Ada (=
as
>> almost every bug would be in the ASIS part). It certainly could work,=
  =

>> but it
>> would mean having to understand the GELA ASIS code in detail (not jus=
t  =

>> the
>> interface). For me, I'd rather fix my own code than someone else's.
>
> Funnily, it's the first time I'm warned against re-using code instead =
of
> re-writing it, usually I'm warned against re-writing instead of
> re-using.

The =E2=80=9Cwhy=E2=80=9D often matters more the =E2=80=9Chow=E2=80=9D, =
and about =E2=80=9Creusing=E2=80=9D, which is an  =

=E2=80=9Chow=E2=80=9D, one should not lose track of the =E2=80=9Cwhy=E2=80=
=9D, and the =E2=80=9Cwhy=E2=80=9D does not  =

always suggest to reuse. See an old paper on this, here:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html
In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome, by Joel Spolsky


-- =

=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