From: gijs@mbase97.xs4all.nl (Maarten Landzaat)
Subject: Re: Ada ad in Embedded Systems Programming stinks
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 21:16:24 +0200
Date: 1994-09-12T21:16:24+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <H.eg.cukUGMIcFyk@mbase97.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 19940911.4965@naggum.no
Erik Naggum writes:
>programmers who _don't_ have readily available copies of the reference
>manual for the language(s) and libraries they use are a dangerous breed.
>
>#<Erik>
>--
>Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.
Your statement is not the answer. It is the question. NO is the answer.
But seriously: I think you are exaggerating. Programmers should write
'good' code. One of the virtues of good code is that it uses constructs
that anybody can understand. It's the same as with natural language:
difficult sentences sound bombastic and don't get the message across.
Although a manual within reach IS of course very useful...
--
Maarten Landzaat (gijs@mbase97.xs4all.nl)
Amsterdam, Double bass, Fender Jazz Bass, Atari ST, Roland Sound Canvas.
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1994-09-06 13:46 ` Ada ad in Embedded Systems Programming stinks david.c.willett
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1994-09-08 7:04 ` Dag Bruck
1994-09-08 9:52 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-09-08 17:12 ` Dag Bruck
1994-09-08 17:28 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-09-22 8:51 ` Brendan WALKER
1994-09-07 22:44 ` John Goodsen
1994-09-08 6:32 ` Keith Thompson @pulsar
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1994-09-07 22:46 ` John Goodsen
1994-09-08 6:47 ` Keith Thompson @pulsar
1994-09-08 8:52 ` David Emery
1994-09-11 3:41 ` Michael M. Bishop
1994-09-11 12:20 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-11 13:29 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-12 14:03 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-09-11 21:48 ` Erik Naggum
1994-09-11 23:47 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-12 6:28 ` Dag Bruck
1994-09-12 12:22 ` David Weller
1994-09-12 20:03 ` Erik Naggum
1994-09-12 19:16 ` Maarten Landzaat [this message]
1994-09-13 10:10 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1994-09-17 12:07 ` Fred McCall
1994-09-12 20:49 ` Mitch Gart
1994-10-13 10:51 Bob Wells #402
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