From: Steve Jones - JON <jon@hp755d2.eurocontrol.fr>
Subject: Re: Ada Student Needs Help..
Date: 1997/01/17
Date: 1997-01-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2soheoiju2.fsf@hp755d2.eurocontrol.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1997Jan13.130528.1@eisner
je@bton.ac.uk (John English) writes:
>
> Larry Kilgallen (kilgallen@eisner.decus.org) wrote:
> : In article <5bdl4i$ffl@saturn.brighton.ac.uk>, jmb36@bton.ac.uk (baker) writes:
> : > I just want a genral solution, hopefully avoiding arrays (cos I'm not very
> : > good with them) Can I use Record types?
>
> : If you aren't very good with arrays, that might be a good reason to
> : use them for your project, since the goal is learning rather than
> : actually mixing drinks.
>
> Well said, Larry, you took the words out of my mouth.
>
> : However, I might be wrong about that, since I am not in the
> : Education business.
>
> You're not wrong -- not wrong at all!
Added to this the student has now raised the issue that if he doesn't
use arrays he is admitting defeat. Next project... a generic matrix
multiplication packge for NxN(xN etc :) arrays.
Reminds me of a student who disagreed with my fathers marking, my father
admitted he was wrong in that case but pointed out 5 other places
where he really should have docked marks so the student ended up with
plus a few and minus more.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-01-13 0:00 Ada Student Needs Help baker
1997-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-01-13 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-01-14 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-01-17 0:00 ` Steve Jones - JON
1997-01-17 0:00 ` John English
1997-01-17 0:00 ` Steve Jones - JON [this message]
1997-01-16 0:00 ` John English
1997-01-16 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-01-16 0:00 ` whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
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