From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,21dfd26d3cb23d48 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Howard Davies Subject: Re: String Manipulation - Help Needed Date: 1998/04/07 Message-ID: <1AvFxBA$9nK1EwrW@roslyn.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 341797845 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: roslyn.demon.co.uk [158.152.179.70] References: Organization: Maverick MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-04-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert Dewar writes >It is not credible that any book says any such idiotic thing. A perfectly >trivial little program can do this. In fact it is quite suitable as a >beginning assignment in Ada! The book is "Rendezvous with Ada 95", must be one of the worst instructional books I've ever used. Anything beyond the most elementary techniques and you are constantly referred to the Ada 95 reference manual - an absolute cop out and little help to someone trying to learn the language. The reference manual doesn't help much either, totallty uninspired reading. The task should be easy. I've already written it in C, Perl, Haskell and Java and it was easy, but not in Ada. -- Howard Davies Howard@roslyn.demon.co.uk