[ANNOUNCE} bicycle gear shift order calculations

[ANNOUNCE} bicycle gear shift order calculations

[Kent Paul Dolan]

All,

For the use of those wondering how to write gnat code that will run at all,
a non-trivial but toy example is now available.

Go to:

  http://www.well.com/user/xanthian

which puts you at the top of my "web site" directory tree

  [Dumping the visitor in to blunder around unassisted turns out to be
  a lot more sensible approach to easy site use by the owner to
  distribute freeware than does trying to maintain a web home page and
  subordinate pages whose only real benefit is to let a user navigate
  the exact same directory structure, only with prettier icons and an
  ego stroke for the maintainer.]

Wander on down to directory

  public/code/gnat/bicycle_gear_shift_ordering

and steal whatever is not nailed down.

This is _not_ meant to be a useful tool without work on behalf of the
user (it doesn't have an input interface, to start with), nor to be
some shining example of great Ada  95 code (it doesn't even have a
makefile, and the code probably fails every reasonable test for good
software engineering).  It is just the first thing I bothered to write
(because I wanted its output) after I got "Hello World" to compile and
run in gnat, and since it is entirely simple minded in terms of
interfacing with anything outside itself (it needs standard output to
work), it might be of use as an example for that exact same limited
purpose to students or the self taught trying to make that same next
transitional gnat coding step.

Enjoy it anyway.  Feel free to wander around the rest of the site and
sneer at the contents.

               ===== random archival quality quote =====

i lived with another t.b-ite for three years, george baby.  three lousy,
miserable,   wretched,  ego-crushing,  identity-destroying,  stultifying
years.
rather  than  repeat  this experience, i would choose to have root canal
surgery  every  day  for  the  rest  of my life, or use an Epilady on my
eyelashes,  or  coat myself in a paste of ground glass and muriatic acid
and  roll around on a hot griddle, or get jiggy with an angry porcupine,
or be a contestant on "Wheel Of Fortune."
i  would  rather  gnaw  off  my  own left leg, sit on a red-hot railroad
spike, or rub habanero peppers on my eyes.
i  would,  in  point  of  fact,  prefer to be hit by a bus, dragged by a
train,  dropped  from  orbit, filleted by a lawnmower, devoured by pygmy
shrews,  burned  alive,  drowned  in  raw  sewage, trampled by a herd of
rhinos  wearing  spiked  golf  shoes  with those silly little fringes on
them,  or  be  locked  in  a  room  entire  lined with video screens and
speakers playing Britney Spears videos.
                              -- mlt@best.com (girl guitarist libertine)
--
Kent Paul Dolan.
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