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From: "(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: ada compiler?
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:14:28 +0000
Date: 2007-11-11T01:14:28+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C35C07F4.CE6DA%yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lvsZi.13247$if6.1368@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net

On 11/11/07 01:01, in article
lvsZi.13247$if6.1368@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net, "anon"
<anon@anon.org> wrote:

> You are missing the point. You should not assume that they need command
> line option until they ask for help that require that type of answer. And if
> there is a Ada language answer then that is the answer that should be the
> given. Not a simple command line answer which is vendor and/or version
> specific.
> 
...
> 
> Most beginners that are learning Ada just use:
> 
> Note: (Linux version)
> 
>     gnat compile <name>.adb
>     gnat bind <name>.ali
>     gnat link <name>.ali
>     ./<name>
...

Nonsense.

I managed labs that taught Ada to 500 beginners a year using GNAT,
and they did no such thing. What is *your* experience of teaching
Ada beginners, exactly?

-- 
Bill Findlay
<surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk





  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-11  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-09 22:25 ada compiler? Bill Cunningham
2007-11-09 22:39 ` anon
2007-11-09 22:59   ` Bill Cunningham
2007-11-09 23:28     ` anon
2007-11-09 23:50 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-11-10  0:32   ` anon
2007-11-10  4:15     ` Jeffrey Creem
2007-11-10  5:08     ` tmoran
2007-11-10  6:12       ` anon
2007-11-10  8:35         ` tmoran
2007-11-10 20:20           ` anon
2007-11-10 22:15             ` Jeffrey Creem
2007-11-11  1:01               ` anon
2007-11-11  1:14                 ` (see below) [this message]
2007-11-11  2:21                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-11  4:08                   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-11-13 13:24                     ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-11-14  7:00                       ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-11-14  9:15                         ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-14 10:26                           ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-11-14 12:25                             ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-14 15:09                               ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-11-14 16:03                                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-14 16:36                                   ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-11-14 17:39                                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-14 20:40                                       ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-11-15  9:59                                         ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-14 17:52                                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-16  1:07                                     ` Samuel Tardieu
2007-11-16  1:58                                       ` tmoran
2007-11-16  9:41                                       ` Stack checking in GNAT (was: ada compiler?) Ludovic Brenta
2007-11-16 10:56                                         ` Stack checking in GNAT Samuel Tardieu
2007-11-16 13:04                                           ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-11-17  7:24                                             ` anon
2007-11-29  0:32                                         ` Robert A Duff
2007-11-17  1:37                                       ` ada compiler? Randy Brukardt
2007-11-17  1:18                                     ` Randy Brukardt
2007-11-29  0:41                                     ` Robert A Duff
2007-11-14 21:31                                 ` Niklas Holsti
2007-11-17  1:50                                   ` Randy Brukardt
2007-11-14 18:33                         ` anon
2007-11-12  5:13                   ` anon
2007-11-11 14:15                 ` Jeffrey Creem
2007-11-13  7:11                 ` Martin Krischik
2007-11-13  8:47                   ` anon
2007-11-13  9:34                     ` to gnat make or not to gnat make (Was: ada compiler?) Martin Krischik
2007-11-13 22:46                       ` anon
2007-11-13 23:14                         ` to gnat make or not to gnat make Simon Wright
2007-11-14  9:21                         ` to gnat make or not to gnat make (Was: ada compiler?) Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-13 22:41                     ` ada compiler? Simon Wright
2007-11-17  2:07                     ` Randy Brukardt
2007-11-17  7:51                       ` anon
2007-11-17  9:00                         ` Pascal Obry
2007-11-17 12:24                         ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-11-19 21:35                           ` Randy Brukardt
2007-11-10 15:03         ` (see below)
2007-11-12 16:38       ` Adam Beneschan
2007-11-13  3:16         ` John W. Kennedy
2007-11-13 16:46           ` Adam Beneschan
2007-11-10  3:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-13  0:20 ` adaworks
2007-11-13 22:27   ` Simon Wright
2007-11-14 17:32   ` Britt Snodgrass
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