From: agent@drrob1.com
Subject: Re: need help learning Ada for a modula-2 programmer
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:12:00 -0500
Date: 2014-02-03T18:12:00-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ge80f95oef7dgku2gjvkp6nksvmel3auoc@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: UpZh8gF+DP6SFwyg@ada-augusta.demon.co.uk
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:15:58 +0000, Mike H
<postmaster@ada-augusta.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In message <ccf2b46a-bb34-4484-b02c-584cfae4e6fa@googlegroups.com>,
>Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net> writes
>>When I started Ada, learning about strings and subtypes were the two
>>most important concepts that got me writing basic code effectively. (I
>>could add, Ada's most excellent approach to variable-length arrays.)
>>
>I agree, approaching string types as being no different from other forms
>of array types (and vice-versa) is the right way to go in Ada.
>
This misunderstands where I am coming from. To me, Ada is a second
language. I am used to how Modula-2 treats strings, which is the same
as C, by null terminating them.
So Ada standard (fixed) string types are quite different than that.
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-28 1:06 need help learning Ada for a modula-2 programmer agent
2014-01-28 1:33 ` adambeneschan
2014-01-28 1:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-01-28 12:18 ` Brian Drummond
2014-02-02 2:47 ` agent
2014-02-02 6:09 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-02-02 15:02 ` agent
2014-02-02 16:00 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-02-02 19:48 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-02-03 8:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-02 17:18 ` Brian Drummond
2014-02-03 0:10 ` agent
2014-02-03 0:36 ` agent
2014-02-03 12:53 ` Brian Drummond
2014-01-28 22:51 ` Jerry
2014-01-29 12:15 ` Mike H
2014-01-29 20:41 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-01-29 23:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-01-30 9:05 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-01-30 14:20 ` Mike H
2014-01-30 14:35 ` Bill Findlay
2014-01-30 15:40 ` Mike H
2014-01-30 23:39 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-01-31 20:16 ` Mike H
2014-01-29 23:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-01-30 1:44 ` Bill Findlay
2014-01-30 2:01 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-01-30 12:24 ` Simon Wright
2014-01-30 23:38 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-02-03 23:12 ` agent [this message]
2014-02-04 6:10 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-02-04 22:38 ` agent
2014-01-29 16:58 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2014-01-29 20:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-01-29 22:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-01-30 12:13 ` Simon Wright
2014-01-30 17:05 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2014-01-30 23:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-01-30 4:29 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-01-30 8:45 ` Where to put change descriptions (Was: need help learning Ada for a modula-2 programmer) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-01-30 9:53 ` need help learning Ada for a modula-2 programmer Georg Bauhaus
2014-01-30 21:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-01-30 16:28 ` Pascal Obry
2014-01-30 17:43 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2014-01-30 18:10 ` Simon Wright
2014-01-30 22:38 ` Randy Brukardt
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