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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,25aa3c7e1b59f7b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-13 00:23:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C41446A.2010001@mail.com> From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20010929 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe? References: <3C39E62F.3020504@look.ca> <3C39E726.8000408@mail.com> <87advpdi0f.fsf@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <3C3A1037.4090005@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 08:23:28 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.249.127 X-Complaints-To: business-support@verizon.com X-Trace: nwrddc02.gnilink.net 1010910208 162.83.249.127 (Sun, 13 Jan 2002 03:23:28 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 03:23:28 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18847 Date: 2002-01-13T08:23:28+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > Hmm. Good point. I should learn Ada :-) (Actually, my copy of Ada As > A Second Language should be on its way...) And now it's here! I've started reading it, and it seems pretty good so far. Just from the overview section on features of the language I think I've learned a bunch that I didn't understand before. But as a dyed-in-the-wool C/C++ guy, I'm going to ignore his advice that Very_Long_Identifiers are good for me :-) I got it for under $40 total at Half.com. It's amazingly expensive to buy a new copy.