From: Andrew Shvets <andrew.shvets@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Introductory Ada Programming Book
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 09:14:44 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2016-12-31T09:14:44-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19d97016-36fa-4e23-a19b-15ad28818551@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <o48hot$19fm$1@gioia.aioe.org>
On Saturday, December 31, 2016 at 10:10:25 AM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2016-12-31 15:26, Lucretia wrote:
>
> > Ada basically forces you to think about your data, the way other
> > languages should, but don't. Data has ranges of allowable values and the
> > compiler will enforce their use.
>
> It is called type or datatype. Data is a value of some type associated
> with some problem space meaning, like employee's age is 38.
>
> Ada does not force you, it rather offers richer than other languages
> means to define types more suitable to annotate and handle data. You
> still can be a real C programmer in Ada by using Integer or
> Integer_Address for just everything.
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> --
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakov
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
Exactly! This is what I love so much about this language! It has so many benefits, from security to software reliability to correctness of execution. This is such a powerful portion of the language that nothing else quite compares.
I covered this topic in two chapters. One dealt with the primitives that are already baked in the language and the second one dealt with the custom types that you mention.
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-31 13:18 Introductory Ada Programming Book Andrew Shvets
2016-12-31 14:26 ` Lucretia
2016-12-31 15:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-12-31 17:14 ` Andrew Shvets [this message]
2016-12-31 14:28 ` Lucretia
2016-12-31 14:34 ` Lucretia
2016-12-31 17:22 ` Andrew Shvets
2016-12-31 17:59 ` Gour
2017-01-02 15:56 ` Andrew Shvets
2017-01-02 16:32 ` Gour
2017-01-03 15:31 ` Patrick Noffke
2017-01-03 22:18 ` Andrew Shvets
2017-01-04 1:14 ` Paul Rubin
2017-01-04 3:07 ` Andrew Shvets
2017-01-04 6:46 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-01-04 9:25 ` raph.amiard
2017-01-04 12:40 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-01-04 12:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-01-04 13:45 ` raph.amiard
2017-01-04 14:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-01-04 15:15 ` Simon Wright
2017-01-10 10:02 ` raph.amiard
2017-01-04 15:18 ` Shark8
2017-01-04 21:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-01-05 3:04 ` Shark8
2017-01-05 7:51 ` G.B.
2017-01-04 13:44 ` raph.amiard
2017-01-04 22:08 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-01-04 22:39 ` Niklas Holsti
2017-01-05 0:38 ` G.B.
2017-01-05 23:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-01-05 6:36 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-01-05 8:38 ` Simon Wright
2017-01-10 10:13 ` raph.amiard
2017-01-09 22:01 ` Robert Eachus
2017-01-04 23:42 ` Andrew Shvets
2017-01-05 0:47 ` G.B.
2017-01-05 19:01 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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