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From: clines@delete_this.airmail.net (Kevin Cline)
Subject: Re: Equality operator overloading in ADA 83
Date: 1997/04/25
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bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) wrote:

>I mean, to append a single character to this array, I just want to
>increment the discrim, and stick the character in the array.  But Ada
>rules require me to do an assignment on the whole thing.

Another outstanding reason why Ada never became popular for desktop
applications.  String manipulation with the Ada standard string types is a
major pain in the butt, and amazingly inefficient.