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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Help, I can't get GW-Ada 83 to work properly
Date: 1997/01/04
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Date: 1997-01-04T00:00:00+00:00
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Philip Chong asked how to get Ada Ed working.

I replied by email, but since the newsgroup is read by many students
it is worth perhaps replying with a post.

When you are first learning a language in school, any language, and first
trying to get it to work, it is quite likely that you will run into
basic problems of understanding -- often caused by poor documentation,
more often caused by not reading or not understanding the documentation.

When you run into such problems, the place to turn is your instructor or,
if available teaching assistants etc. It's not really appropriate to post
a message to the newsgroup..

Just do some arithmetic. Probably there are thousands of students starting
an Ada course this semester right around now. Let's guess 5000. Suppose
20% of them have trouble and need some help. Well if we had 1000 posts
of questions like yours to the newsgroup, then certainly they would not
get answered, and the newsgroup would get unusable.

Wait till you have learned enough to ask questions that are of general
interest, where it is worthwhile to post the question and the answers, and 
meanwhile read the newsgroup and learn (and also, if you have not already,
go to www.adahome.gnat to learn all about Ada and Ada resources).

Finally, why are you using Ada Ed? Why not use GNAT. At this stage
Ada Ed is a historical curiosity ... It is a very limited interpretor
for an obsolete version of the language.