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- From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Re: Object Oriented Ada Preprocessors
- Message-ID: <59333@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 18:29:06 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.123114.4907@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
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- in Article 3359 of comp.lang.ada rharwood@east.pima.edu writes:
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- >> I am aware of several government contracts which PROHIBIT the use of
- >> pre-processed Ada code. It is a requirement that all code be developed by real
- >> humans, and that THAT code should be the input directly to the compiler.
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- In article <1992Jul30.123114.4907@news.uni-stuttgart.de> ucaa2385@ruscvx.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann) writes:
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- > This is only reasonable in the long run.
- > Ada9x will provide saturated features to fully support good programing practices.
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- I agree under many circumstances that machine generated Ada is a bad idea,
- for several reasons. But I hope they allow exceptions under reasonable
- circumstances. Writing parsers by hand would benefit no one.
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- If the generator is supplied as Ada source then future maintenance could
- proceed even if the original parties are no longer available.
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- There are other situations where generated source makes sense,
- but I wouldnt put OO front ends in the list.
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