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Subject: Re: Ada for 1st year students
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<9955de2c-f74a-4c2b-b513-56c130a5f1ee@k16g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>, 
amado.alves@gmail.com writes
>And for starting they will even use a package that predeclares
>variables I, J, K, L, M as integers, X, Y, Z as reals, etc. That's my
>approach anyway, logic first, types later.

Then why use Ada?

Having just come back to Ada after ten years in retirement what was one 
of the first howlers I committed? I used the same natural type to count 
both bytes and words. Do I have to spell out what happened next?

-- 
Mike
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down in the dust?" "It's a very effective way of being wretched," said Marvin.