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From: dweller@dfw.net (David Weller)
Subject: Re: Two ideas for the next Ada Standard
Date: 1996/09/04
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Date: 1996-09-04T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <JSA.96Sep3152930@alexandria>, Jon S Anthony <jsa@alexandria> wrote:
>I think the problem here is that instead of learning and understanding
>the Ada model, you are simply trying to write C++ in Ada.  A recipe
>for frustration and annoyance and error if there ever was one.
>

True, but that's how many of us learn to migrate.  Right or Wrong,
it's important to understand
	1) A general syntactic mapping of what we want to do
	_then_
	2) The correct semantics/idiom for what were were once used
	to.

I think the time spent on 1, however, should be significantly short.
No more than 10 seconds with the correct motivation :-)

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