From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3869f0598191b11d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:34:07 -0500 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:33:31 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau+news@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Macintosh/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Porting ADA source References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.76 X-Trace: sv3-6NMMDMb7vhE8TOCs2PKnwMBMVX5WUcvuJ2x/NXAGvhXZbNiax5puhlRZrWHIO5frAlnQSMgW2I+/4N1!pyaNriiBUZFxOBRMaeIbgNBIGld7/Zg+svoh8CReSQ+0jnhRaFHjIm6QdP1jfRn62Fe5ihX6cr9l X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2245 Date: 2004-07-19T14:33:31-05:00 List-Id: Martin Dowie wrote: > Don't use the standard types! They are a convience for writing q&d programs > and should never be used in production code. Advice that one could easily take too far. I know of a major project where all sorts of unnecessary code had to be written for handling text because String and Integer were forbidden types! -- Wes Groleau Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? -- Clarence Darrow