From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,e61c8636ef35379d
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-17 10:18:29 PST
Path: 
 supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!feeder.via.net!news.he.net!mercury.cts.com!newsfeed.cts.com!cheetah.visicom.com!usenet
From: Wayne Lydecker <wayne@mtws.visicom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Examples in Docs, was Re: Escape Sequences in Strings
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:04:17 -0800
Organization: visicom labs, san diego ca, usa
Message-ID: <3A65DEA1.F90DEE49@mtws.visicom.com>
References: <93objj$guk$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
 <ZSS76.120778$A06.3893142@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com>
 <93q77h$rr6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <940f9j$nj2$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
 <940n0u$tnf$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <942brr$b0t$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
 <942vqr$sd0$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
 <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101170815001.21897-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: locnar.visicom.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; HP-UX B.10.20 9000/755)
X-Accept-Language: en
Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4110
Date: 2001-01-17T10:04:17-08:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Personally, I'd like to have a book that was nothing but examples.
When coding, especially in a language new to me, I search for code
similar to what I need to do and modify it for my usage.  A book of
examples would allow me to find templates to use.  Ada is not one
of the easier languages to learn and it has gotten more complex in
'95.  Reading the LRM does not make it easier to understand.  BTW,
can someone tell me exactly what "abstract tagged limited private"
or "abstract tagged limited null record" means?  How about some
examples instead?

-- Wayne.

Brian Rogoff wrote:
> 
> I wonder if you learned SML programming from "The Definition of Standard
> ML" :-).
> 
> Seriously, I'm pretty amazed that anyone can learn to program from a
> typical language spec without examples. Do you think it is a learnable
> and teachable skill (do you teach your students this?), or is it a
> unique quirk?
> 
> -- Brian