Re: ada programmer

[Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org>]

Ted Dennison wrote:

> Mathias, if you are still reading, *this* is a good example what Marin was
> talking about when he said, "looks suspiciously like a request for someone to
> do your homework for you:".
>

I'd agree that it looks like a good homework assignment - even if it isn't. So
I'd be willing to go as far as to observe that all one would have to do is
determine what the data type was and then look in the appendix of the ARM labeled
"Language Defined Attributes" to determine all the attributes that apply. From
there it is simple to display the attributes given that one knows how to use
Text_IO. A skilled Ada programmer could probably pull together the program in a
matter of minutes. A student learning the language might need an hour or two -
but certainly this doesn't sound like an enormous task.

IMHO, someone requesting help with homework may not be harmed by giving them a
pointer to the appropriate resource - much like what a librarian would do if you
came in and said: "I'm writing a paper on Ancient Oriental Underwater
Basketweaving - can you help me?" Providing the actual paper would be A Bad
Thing, but pointing to the correct books on the shelf is probably fair.

MDC
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