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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: why learn C?
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<adaworks@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>  I cannot imagine anyone writing a column
> called "Obfuscated Ada."

Not a column, perhaps, but surely you could write an interesting article.
Ada has plenty of ways to write something simple in wonderfully long-winded
ways which potentially harm readability. And there are various non-obvious
idioms that are very handy, like using Boolean'Pos to get the effect of a
conditional expression:

Something : Integer := Boolean'Pos(<condition>)*Function1 + Boolean'Pos(not
<condition>)*Function2;

I always comment such things extensively, but it would be interesting to
figure out the meaning without it.

                            Randy.