Re: [newbie] simple(?) data structures

[Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>]

Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> If you've used C a lot, it's an even better idea to avoid pointers,
 > so you can learn how many situations that require pointers in  C do
 > not require them in Ada.

It would be nice if there was a tutorial explaining why this is so and
showing how to take C code with pointers and transform it into Ada code
without pointers. It's mainly about string handling, since that's where
most of C's pointer manipulation takes place. The other eliminatable
situation I can think of involves factory methods in OO when you don't
need to keep a created object around permanently, so that you can use
classwide types and return them by value. Then there's the usual bit
about stepping through an array by pointer instead of index, but that's
not a requirement in C, merely an optimization.

Do you know of any such tutorial?