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On 8/12/10 10:53 AM, Natacha Port� wrote:

> I have to admit I was quite surprised to find my old way of using S-
> expressions to be so extremely more difficult in Ada compared to C
> (whaddoyoumean I can't just feed to strcmp() raw data I've just read
> from a file!?).

You can "=" just those bytes: you'll just have to drop type
checking by using an instance of Unchecked_Conversion of
the-bytes-you-read to String.

> But on other hand it might be a good thing to be
> shaken into realizing the deep implication from the difference in
> typing strength.

The 12K SLOC Python programs on my screen surely would
be a little easier to rewrite if Python had explicit typing.
assert isinstance(this, that) seems a helpful workaround,
but tedious in comparison to strong typing during translation...