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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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-03 23:12 UTC|newest]

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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