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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fef3ad775ef4b0b7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!flpi089.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.net!flpi088.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.com!flpi107.ffdc.sbc.com!flpi143.ffdc.sbc.com.POSTED!cfe18fef!not-for-mail From: Gary Scott Organization: Home User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada for 1st year students References: <60e0c5f0-1e17-4add-b21e-b1ef622d5233@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <6gj2s5-0f9.ln1@newserver.thecreems.com> <543356bc-7862-45d2-9004-dfef69deab26@79g2000hsk.googlegroups.com> <3m65s5-33u.ln1@newserver.thecreems.com> <606df221-6074-4732-b5e7-de74700b3e9a@t41g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <158iljyiunpyy$.172hhzc98hoef$.dlg@40tude.net> <9955de2c-f74a-4c2b-b513-56c130a5f1ee@k16g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.94.37.188 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: flpi143.ffdc.sbc.com 1223775392 ST000 68.94.37.188 (Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:36:32 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:36:32 EDT X-UserInfo1: TSUGW]CEGJPKR_DYABNLNFXBWR\HPCTL@XT^OBPLAH[\BPIB_NVUAH_[BL[\IRKIANGGJBFNJF_DOLSCENSY^U@FRFUEXR@KFXYDBPWBCDQJA@X_DCBHXR[C@\EOKCJLED_SZ@RMWYXYWE_P@\\GOIW^@SYFFSWHFIXMADO@^[ADPRPETLBJ]RDGENSKQQZN Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:37:59 -0500 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2342 Date: 2008-10-11T20:37:59-05:00 List-Id: Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:57:52 -0700 (PDT), amado.alves@gmail.com > declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada: > > >>And for starting they will even use a package that predeclares >>variables I, J, K, L, M as integers, X, Y, Z as reals, etc. That's my > > > Egad... The return of FORTRAN... Fortran never went anywhere, its alive and well and outsells Ada 1000 to 1. Implicit typing is not used/is discouraged, but yes it remains the default (the standard committee made a serious mistake when the new source form was defined) -- Gary Scott mailto:garylscott@sbcglobal dot net Fortran Library: http://www.fortranlib.com Support the Original G95 Project: http://www.g95.org -OR- Support the GNU GFortran Project: http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/index.html If you want to do the impossible, don't hire an expert because he knows it can't be done. -- Henry Ford