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From: frc@stellar1.com
Subject: question re Ada equivalent of C function
Date: 1998/02/22
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Agreed. What I am after is a means - more than a C transliteration -
of accessing I/O hardware which requires this kind of read/write
functionality. My only basis of description is the C functions that I
have used to do this.

David Fisher

>In many cases trying mimic the functions of another language means that
>you end up writing an an unnatural style (for Ada) and giving up the
>more powerful constructs of Ada.  Learn all you can about programming
>in a normal Ada style (there are lots of good books available) and
>only after you have that mastered should you consider emulating other
>languages in very special cases (which certainly exist).