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Subject: Re: My first test of github: cpros - lightweight Ada command
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 18:08:34 +0200
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On 09/25/2017 03:08 PM, AdaMagica wrote:
> A quote from the README:
> "You have to dig into the source code of cpros_test1 to figure out more if you want to use this simple (but for me useful) tool."
> 
> Am I the only one who finds this attitude terrible and unbearable for software engineering practices?

Not at all. And the code is terrible, too. There's a generic with a formal 
discrete type that makes assumptions about the actual type that are totally 
unjustified. The identifiers are cryptic and meaningless, often with a '1' 
tacked on the end for mo apparent reason. I could go on, but the reason I didn't 
comment before was because I didn't want to spend hours commenting on the 
problems I encountered looking at part of a single pkg.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I fart in your general direction."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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