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: 103376,4f316de357ae35e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-01 08:59:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D495747.C71E4CDC@san.rr.com> From: Darren New X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: FAQ and string functions References: <20020730093206.A8550@videoproject.kiev.ua> <4519e058.0207300548.15eeb65c@posting.google.com> <20020731104643.C1083@videoproject.kiev.ua> <3D487CDA.24D9B1AE@san.rr.com> <20020801142038.J1080@videoproject.kiev.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 15:43:42 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.74.216.166 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1028216622 66.74.216.166 (Thu, 01 Aug 2002 08:43:42 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 08:43:42 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27576 Date: 2002-08-01T15:43:42+00:00 List-Id: Oleg Goodyckov wrote: > "Long-lived" or "long-writting"? In second case I'll agree with you. Your experience may differ, but in my experience, I've never spent less than a month writing a program that is still running 20 years later. :-) Of course, having more sophisticated stuff built in (or at least predefined) would be useful. But using Perl where Ada is appropriate because of a function like split() is probably inappropriate. Why there isn't an unbounded array type built in (given that unbounded string *is* built in) is beyond me. And of course, GNAT *does* come with all that good stuff, and it can be done portably (even if the GNAT sources aren't portable, which I don't know whether or not they are). -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. ** http://home.san.rr.com/dnew/DNResume.html ** ** http://images.fbrtech.com/dnew/ ** Things to be thankful for, #37: No sausage was served at the Last Supper.