Re: GNAT GPL is proving...educational

[Alan Jump <alan.jump@gmail.com>]

On Friday, July 26, 2013 8:17:03 PM UTC-7, Randy Brukardt wrote:
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> >> I don't recommend using LRM 3.10.2 for that purpose since it will lead to 
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> >> nightmares.  :) :)
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> Only if the reader understands enough of it to get in trouble. (Like us.) 
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> For a neophyte coder, it might as well be written in ancient Latin. :-)
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> It's definitely not for nothing that 3.10.2 has the (unofficial) name "The 
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> Heart of Darkness". AARM 3.10.2(3.b/3) describes this as " Woe unto all who 
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> enter here (well, at least unto anyone that needs to understand any of these 
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> rules)."
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>                                               Randy.
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> P.S. I was asked by the ARG to put that note into the AARM; it wasn't my 
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> idea and perhaps it would have been more entertaining if it had been mine. 
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> (Or maybe much less entertaining. :-)

I actually got my hands on a reference that does a good job of translating 3.10.2 into human-readable form: Divid Naiditch, "Rendezvous with Ada 95". Although I probably should be worried that the descriptive section of that tome is in Chapter 11. (The joke will probably be meaningless to anyone outside the US.)

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73 de N5ILN
Alan