Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics

[Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>]

Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> Now, putting on my language lawyer hat Hyman is "correct"

Oh, sorry, I was just wrong. I didn't realize that String
was indexed by Positive. Remeber, I don't know Ada (and I
don't have an Ada compiler installed at the office!)

The problem is that as a tutorial, I don't think that it
actually teaches. That is, it makes perfect sense to Ada
programmers who already know how to do this stuff. I don't
think it makes any sense to an Ada newbie who is trying to
figure out how to work with strings in Ada to accomplish
what he was doing in C.

Just for example, it is ubiquitous in C to have arrays of
strings, either with or without a null pointer terminator:
     const char *colors[] = { "Red", "Green", "Blue", 0 };
     const char *CMYK[] = { "Cyan", "Magenta", "Yellow", "Black" };
How do you carry this over into Ada?