From: sdcrdcf!lwall
Subject: Little known facts about Ada* quiz #1
Date: Mon Apr 25 07:57:49 1983
Date: 1983-04-25T07:57:49+00:00 [thread overview]
Date: Mon Apr 18 15:23:26 1983
Message-ID: <bnews.sdcrdcf.182> (raw)
Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.uucp
Organization: System Development Corporation--a Burroughs Company
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Now that we have that out of the way, here's the quiz:
Question #1: What is the value of 0**0? (This is an easy one!)
Question #2: What is the value of abs(-1) * (-1) ?
Question #3: Barring the use of constructs that allow for an infinite number
of possibilities (redundant parens, use of attributes such as 'SUCC
and 'PRED, concatenation of "", etc.), how many ways are there to
write the string literal having the value "ab"? For example,
"ab", ('a','b'), "&"("a",'b'), ...
Please respond via mail and we will summarize to the net. Some of these
questions have interesting philosophical implications.
"&"("Mark Biggar","Larry Wall")
...!decvax!trw-unix!sdcrdcf!{markb,lwall}
P.S. Is a language that provides only one way to express a given idea
intrinsically superior to a language that provides more than one way?
* Ada is a registered trademark of USDODAJPO.
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