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From: Dale Stanbrough <MrNoSpam@bigpoop.net.au>
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

> The concept is foreign to C programmers, for whom arrays in
> expressions decay to pointers, and which cannot be passed or
> returned by value. And I'll bet that *no one explains this*
> when teaching Ada. The semantic gap becomes so large that it's
> no wonder that C programmers wind up frustrated when trying to
> do simple things that work properly in their old language.

I thought I had this in my notes, but upon examination it seems not!
I'll have to update them to include this.

Thanks,

Dale

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