Re: bitwise comparators

["David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

Alexander Van Hecke <alexke@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3882FC1C.2BA8C959@hotmail.com...
> > I'd also like to point out that the "while" construct you are using is
> > common for 'C' or Pascal, but in Ada you could use a "loop" construct
with
> > "exit when"
> >
>
> thank you all for your response!
> As many of you have pointed out, I could have used exit when ...
> But as you probably noticed, I have a C background and I'm not that
familiar
> with Ada.  I think it's a nice feature of Ada that you can write
'readable'
> code, but IMHO Ada takes a lot longer to learn, there are more constructs,
> keywords, etc...  In a word, the language is more complicated, yet not
> necessarily more powerfull (hope I don't get flamed for this :-)).   In C
you'd
> have one while loop, and you'd put your condition in the while expression
and
> that's it.  Nothing more to learn about it!
> What's your opinion on this?
>

Ada makes it cleaner to exit from the middle of a loop, IMO.

Try doing multi-tasking in Ada and in C if you want a real contrast where
the
Ada solution code is much simpler than the C.