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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,60e2922351e0e780
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-03 06:36:22 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail
From: Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Clause "with and use"
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:36:22 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: PVV
Message-ID: 
 <slrnbqcpv6.2io.randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>
References: <3FA2CDCB.500F4AF0@fakeaddress.nil>
 <bebbba07.0310312309.77c6d82f@posting.google.com> <uism44c1k.fsf@wanadoo.fr>
 <3FA3B412.AF3BEB96@fakeaddress.nil> <uekwr4u1k.fsf@wanadoo.fr>
 <Ve5pb.36825$294.35899@nwrdny03.gnilink.net>
 <slrnbq9qti.qu.randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>
 <3FA50083.10709@noplace.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no
X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1067870182 7702 129.241.83.82 (3 Nov 2003 14:36:22
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:36:22 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux)
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1981
Date: 2003-11-03T14:36:22+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On 2003-11-02, Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote:
> There's an article in the Nov 03 issue of Communications of the ACM 
> called "Measuring Productivity In The Software Industry" Among other 
> things it talks about "Understandibility" and the energy lost in trying 
> to decrypt algorithms coded to minimize the number of keystrokes used to 
> write them. The authors think that "economy of expression" is 
> counter-productive. (Although, like most articles on productivity, they 
> don't have any data to back it up.)

Sounds reasonable. One could also compare a 10 line poem to a 2 page
story. I think one would finish the latter faster. By that I mean
understand it.

Preben
-- 
"Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming
 language."