Re: Synatx error for Hello World Ada program in the web, or did Ada changed?

["(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 22/12/2009 23:16, in article KrcYm.81441$Zu5.43665@newsfe24.iad, "Nasser
M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> wrote:

> I was just testing my GPS installation from the latest GPL 2009 edition
> downloaded from Ada libre web site.
> 
> So I just copied this hello world ada program shown here:
> 
> http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/ada/hworld.html
> 
> Here it is:
> 
> with Text_To; use Text_To
>   procedure hello is
>     begin
>     put("Hello World");
>  end hello
> 
> 
> Funny thing is that, I got 2 syntax errors.  (but GPS is working!)

So is the compiler!

> 
> ";" is missing from the end of the first line and the end of the last line.

The code is wrong, and it's not just a matter of missing semicolons.
The rest of the code on that website is almost as bad.

If you want to learn the rudiments of Ada from a website, look at:

   <http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Programming:Ada>

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Bill Findlay
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