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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: "Subtract C, add Ada"
Date: 25 Jan 1995 00:38:22 -0500
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Oh no! don't say that we are going to have this thread deteriorate into
"look at this weird C code and tell me what it does". Surely there is
some other newsgroup where people are happier to play this game.

Incidentally, it is interesting that the typical Ada puzzler has the form:

 is this weird construct legal,

rather than

 what does this weird code do?

Of course I realize you can construct examples the other way round in both
cases, but still I think typically this is the pattern (compare for example
the C Puzzle book, with Exploring Ada)

This somewhat goes along with the general experience that it is harder to
get programs past an Ada compiler than past a C compiler, but once they
are past, they hav a better chance of behaving as expected!