From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,df2846722d35655f,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) Subject: [ANNOUNCE} bicycle gear shift order calculations Date: 1999/11/23 Message-ID: <7xF_3.526$aj3.46431@news.wenet.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 552274779 Summary: free code, get it while it's slightly warmed over X-Complaints-To: news@wenet.net X-Trace: news.wenet.net 943400131 208.178.101.2 (Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:35:31 PST) Organization: Birthright Party "The birthright of humankind is the stars!" Reply-To: xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:35:31 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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.