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,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-30 10:00:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language Message-ID: References: <9k36ae$138k$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B654276.4040707@bigfoot.de> <3B655CE8.F8FAD2CF@sneakemail.com> <3B65810F.BEF41F2@san.rr.com> <3B658ABC.BFF1B050@sneakemail.com> Organization: LJK Software Date: 30 Jul 2001 12:55:53 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 996512154 216.44.122.34 (Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:55:54 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:55:54 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10768 Date: 2001-07-30T12:55:53-05:00 List-Id: In article <3B658ABC.BFF1B050@sneakemail.com>, Russ Paielli <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> writes: > Preben Randhol wrote: >> >> In article <3B65810F.BEF41F2@san.rr.com>, Darren New wrote: >> > >> > This regularly comes up in the python newsgroup, where studies showing >> > the effectiveness of indentation-oriented blocks reduces bugs. Not that >> > I'm recommending it for Ada, mind. But there have been actual >> > experiments done showing it works. >> >> So if you code in Ada and use propper identation (as I expect most do) >> you should reduce bugs. :-) > > That's like saying, "If you code in C++, check all array bounds yourself > (as I expect most do) and you should reduce bugs." And the difference is I can write a program to correct indentation. But I will not, because others have already done it.