Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language)

From: Simon Wright (simon_at_pushface.org)
Date: 02/08/04

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    "Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net> writes:

    > I think you are on the right track. When I am programming in Ada, I
    > often spend most of a day coding. If I am exhausted at the end of it,
    > I will put off compiling until the next day. Otherwise, I hand all
    > the code to the compiler, and I am not surprised to be handed back
    > dozens of error messages. Fix the syntax bugs, and now I get twices
    > as many semantic errors.

    I don't know if I'm just too impatient, but I much prefer to implement
    each subprogram body and then compile it (they are usually separates,
    so GNAT is quite happy do do this from within Glide).

    If nothing else, it means that any problems with specs or
    inter-package relationships appear earlier.

    > Kill all those and I am surprised if the
    > test programs--often written between the package interface and the
    > package bodies--don't run correctly. 

    -- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.
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