pearson%bud.DECnet@LLL-ICDC.ARPA ("BUD::PEARSON") (10/30/86)
A few coworkers and I have noticed something odd happening to the Ada programs we write: more and more often, the top-level ("main") procedure turns out to "do nothing itself". It ends with begin null; end; while the "real work" is done by generic packages instantiated in its declarative part. Have we wandered off the path of righteousness? or is THIS the path of righteousness? Is there a cogent (preferably bumper-sticker- sized) explanation why it SHOULD be this way, that we can give the old, conservative guy across the trailer, who suspects that we've been seduced by a fascination for the arcane subtleties of the Ada language? - Peter (pearson%anchor.decnet@lll-icdc.arpa) ------