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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.224.7.7 with SMTP id b7mr26081501qab.5.1375118483311; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:21:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.101.110 with SMTP id ff14mr516615igb.9.1375118483099; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:21:23 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.bbs-scene.org!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cb17no1106132qab.0!news-out.google.com!ce7ni0qab.0!nntp.google.com!cb17no1106128qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:21:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=63.80.193.9; posting-account=nD_N8QoAAACgNfe5vMwm0rMAu4pgYumJ NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.80.193.9 References: <7cbb4b66-9b59-4d82-a626-2fdc845ccbde@googlegroups.com> <3ebb953d-070c-46a6-99d1-611c5a79f72f@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GNAT GPL is proving...educational From: Alan Jump Injection-Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:21:23 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:16599 Date: 2013-07-29T10:21:22-07:00 List-Id: On Friday, July 26, 2013 8:17:03 PM UTC-7, Randy Brukardt wrote: >=20 > >> I don't recommend using LRM 3.10.2 for that purpose since it will lead= to=20 >=20 > >> nightmares. :) :) >=20 >=20 >=20 > Only if the reader understands enough of it to get in trouble. (Like us.)= =20 >=20 > For a neophyte coder, it might as well be written in ancient Latin. :-) >=20 >=20 >=20 > It's definitely not for nothing that 3.10.2 has the (unofficial) name "Th= e=20 >=20 > Heart of Darkness". AARM 3.10.2(3.b/3) describes this as " Woe unto all w= ho=20 >=20 > enter here (well, at least unto anyone that needs to understand any of th= ese=20 >=20 > rules)." >=20 >=20 >=20 > Randy. >=20 >=20 >=20 > P.S. I was asked by the ARG to put that note into the AARM; it wasn't my= =20 >=20 > idea and perhaps it would have been more entertaining if it had been mine= .=20 >=20 > (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 out= side the US.) - - 73 de N5ILN Alan