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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:16:07 +0100
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"Jerry Coffin" writes:
> In fairness, I should add that my personal experiece with Ada was
> almost entirely with the 1983 version, so it's entirely possible that
> at least some of these have been fixed -- OTOH, looking at the code
> snippets posted to this thread, it looks like at least some of the
> ugliness remains.

The "use type" feature of Ada 95 alone makes Ada 95 *much* more
pleasant to program with.  Check it out.  And yes, we allow it in our
coding standards :)

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.