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From: ryan k <ryan@ryankaskel.com>
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Subject: Re: Learning Ada but missing the basics?
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:38:04 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jun 30, 4:19=A0pm, Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org> wrote:
> ryan k <r...@ryankaskel.com> writes:
> > I'm trying to learn Ada because a) I think it's cool to learn new
> > computer languages and b) it looks like a good one. I've gone the
> > through a lot of the tutorials but lets say have package MyPackage and
> > 5 subprograms are in the body. Which procedure is run first? Is it
> > sequential?
>
> None of them will run unless they're called.
>
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Is there some sort of equivalent to C's main()?
>
> Not exactly. =A0There's no special name for the entry point. =A0You
> specify it when you link the program.
>
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Is a
> > binary created for every package?
>
> That depends on what you mean by "a binary". =A0There typically won't be
> an executable created for each package. =A0An Ada package is similar in
> some ways to a separately compiled C source file; you can combine
> several of them, along with a procedure that's specified to be the
> main program, into a single program. =A0The details of how you do this
> are defined by each implementation, not by the language.
>
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 I g=
uess I don't understand where
> > things start and end. Any help or links are greatly appreciated!
>
> --
> Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) ks...@mib.org =A0<http://www.ghoti.net/~=
kst>
> Nokia
> "We must do something. =A0This is something. =A0Therefore, we must do thi=
s."
> =A0 =A0 -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

I use the GNAT compiler. How then do I specify the main procedure?

Thanks.