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From: defaria@hpclapd.HP.COM (Andy DeFaria)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: File name conventions for Ada units
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Date: 12 Oct 90 05:29:41 GMT
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>/ hpclapd:comp.lang.ada / brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) /  1:59 am  Oct 11, 1990 /
>
>The beauty of this system being that if sourcefile is ever removed
>accidentally, you end up using sourcefile.ada even if it is entirely
>different. This contributes greatly to bug concealment, unreliability,
>and other software engineering techniques.

The    person  that   names one   file    sourcefile  and  a  different one
sourcefile.ada deserves what he gets!   

Same kind of problems occur with things like linked  files  and unprintable
characters in  file  names.  A certain amount of  knowledge about  the file
system and its behaviour has to be assumed.