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 10.50.164.169 with SMTP id yr9mr4214170igb.2.1417810182179; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:09:42 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.96.163 with SMTP id k32mr24621qge.33.1417810182144; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:09:42 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!h15no13958513igd.0!news-out.google.com!r1ni15qat.1!nntp.google.com!s7no4374614qap.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 12:09:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2001:470:9174:1:b98c:4ee9:8bf8:8839; posting-account=r0RePAgAAABkc8iAou09Mtfbf-fnKQql NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:470:9174:1:b98c:4ee9:8bf8:8839 References: <16bc91a8-7d25-4b39-a88c-3423e5bdecf4@googlegroups.com> <587e236f-123f-4897-b73e-264082a62806@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: The enormous potential that programming LaTeX in Ada presents. From: mrvmurray@gmail.com Injection-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 20:09:42 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:23888 Date: 2014-12-05T12:09:42-08:00 List-Id: On Friday, 5 December 2014 13:02:55 UTC, Austin Obyrne wrote: > On Thursday, December 4, 2014 3:25:46 PM UTC, Simon Wright wrote: : : > > > > [1] https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a84i0jb8jv48nev/Q143ubNUWC > > ======================================================================== > > I value your feedback greatly to the extent that I am archiving it as evidence to others - Austin Thats a very good move! :-) Simon's demonstration of the ease with which your code can be converted to read/write binary succinctly removes silly distractions like LaTeX from the process. It also removes a source of program crashes, which makes debugging the rest easier (now the plaintext shouldn't crash the program, but you still have an artificially short message length). M --