From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Subject: Re: GNAT.Serial_Communications ?
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:15:12 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2008-08-10T01:15:12-07:00 [thread overview]
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Steve wrote:
> I am learning Ada and I find it quite funny that this serial stuff
> happens as COM ports are no more available on the machines...
>
> Am I right spending my time trying to learn this language or is it
> like latin (good to know some sentences to shine at tea time) ?
>
> I don't appreciate tea too much...
Ada is not a special-purpose language that can only do serial port
communications. You will benefit from learning Ada for any kind of
programming. Multi-tasking, database interfaces, networking, graphical
interfaces, embedded progamming, etc; Ada supports them all.
--
Ludovic Brenta.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-20 10:34 GNAT.Serial_Communications ? Tomek Walkuski
2008-06-20 12:41 ` Anh Vo
2008-07-13 9:32 ` Tomek Walkuski
2008-07-13 11:35 ` anon
2008-08-09 12:46 ` Tomek Walkuski
2008-08-09 14:58 ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-08-09 22:24 ` stephane.los
2008-08-10 5:01 ` anon
2008-08-10 8:15 ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
2008-08-10 20:33 ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-08-13 20:28 ` stephane.los
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