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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: ada paper critic
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"Gautier no_direct_reply_please" <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com> writes:

> >Alderson, Paul A. wrote:
> 
> >>    MY_BIG_BLOATED_PACKAGE_NAME.MY_BIG_BLOATED_VARIABLE_NAME :=
> >>MY_OTHER_BIG_BLOATED_PACKAGE_NAME.MY_BIG_BLOATED_ARRAY_OR_FUNCTION(MY_BIG_BLOATED_GLOBAL_LIT_PACKAGE.AND_OF_COURSE_A_BIG_BLOATED_LITERAL);
> 
> Andrew Maizels:
> 
> > Yeah, this sucks.  And having to haul in a dozen different packages
> > to do anything useful sucks too.
> 
> Let's add that this not the typical style or a required syntax
> of Ada, but bad habits of programmers who were accustomed
> to punched cards, capital letters, PDP-8 machines and were
> resticted to program in FORTRAN-66 or C in their youth.

People who used PDP-8s with ASR33s as the sole I/O device didn't tend
to develop habits like this! It would have been just too much work and
time .. terseness was important.

I admit the ALL CAPS part, though. Until I saw the light in about 1982.