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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:59:36 +0100
From: Thomas Locke <thomas@kenshi.dk>
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Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> To learn about Ada, you shouldn't try to translate C programs. Rather, 
> you should state the requirements and figure out how to implement them 
> in Ada. It was not clear from your C program whether you wanted to know 
> how to implement a program to copy any kind of file, and were simply 
> mistaken in using Text_IO, or a program limited to text files, and the C 
> simply couldn't express that limitation.


I understand.

I'm not as such trying to "translate" C programs. I'm trying to redo 
them in Ada, the Ada way. So I guess you could say, that the 
functionality of the small C programs are my requirements, and I'm now 
trying to figure out how to implement that functionality in Ada.

It is pretty clear to me now, that Ada.Text_IO is not the way to mimic 
this specific functionality, so already I can say that I've learned 
something new and, probably, important.  :o)

I will try hard to better explain my intentions in the future.

Regards,
/Thomas