From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,NICE_REPLY_A, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R.Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 2-dimensional view on 1 dimensional array Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 17:53:21 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:53:21 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="f26675eaee5c19d7d67bbdd2f2063da5"; logging-data="2168174"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18MOJd/QMsXIsHGiYOgDJaSaXr+3s9/7BM=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:fPCgjwlu5VpxaZWCzSv2TciUXUs= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:64552 List-Id: On 2022-10-25 14:57, J-P. Rosen wrote: > That's too much for my small head ( (c) Hoare) I am familiar with the Dijkstra quote, "I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it". Did Hoare say something along those lines, too? -- Jeff Carter "[Many] programmers do not use [languages with automatic run-time checks] because 'They're not efficient.' (Presumably this means that it is vital to get the wrong answers quickly.)" Elements of Programming Style 193