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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: 4 beginner's questions on the PL Ada
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 22:45:35 -0400
Date: 2013-08-09T22:45:35-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gt9b09pq3sdo7dh7kaccvcp6f75s85u4iu@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877gfucton.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se

On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 01:48:08 +0200, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
declaimed the following:

>Well, as I see it, the point with Usenet is that you *talk* about
>technology (and other things). Just yanking one million URLs isn't
>going to help. (Although you took it to a new high, there has been
>a lot of URLs in this thread. Do you guys really enjoy that?)
>

	While I do sometimes just drop in code snippets, I more often prefer
the "teach a man to fish" mode for such direct questions-- which plugging
in links to the HTML manual were meant to suggest... Search the manual
first, and then ask for clarification if needed, providing the information
as to what is unclear.

>If I had the book here, that'd be a different ballgame. I'll visit
>the public library tomorrow and see what they got on Ada.

	Just Google for 

Ada Reference Manual

and you should find that it is available as a PDF (in both regular and
annotated forms, along with red-line mark-up of the changes from previous
version).

	While I do sometimes just drop in code snippets, I more often prefer
the "teach a man to fish" mode -- which plugging in links to the HTML
manual were meant to indicate... Search the manual first, and then ask for
clarification if needed, providing the information as to what is unclear.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/


  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-10  2:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-09 16:50 4 beginner's questions on the PL Ada Emanuel Berg
2013-08-09 17:09 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-09 17:16   ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-09 17:46     ` Alan Jump
2013-08-09 18:10       ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-09 19:01   ` Randy Brukardt
2013-08-09 21:38     ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-09 22:00       ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-09 22:16         ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10  0:39           ` Anh Vo
2013-08-10  1:24             ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10  6:16               ` Simon Wright
2013-08-10 12:13                 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10 17:12               ` Mike H
2013-08-10 17:53                 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10 19:50                   ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-08-10 22:23                     ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-11  7:12                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-08-11 12:44                         ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-11 21:12                           ` Bill Findlay
2013-08-11 21:22                             ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-12 17:39               ` Anh Vo
2013-08-12 18:15                 ` Anh Vo
2013-08-12 19:57                 ` Simon Wright
2013-08-12 20:13                   ` Anh Vo
2013-08-10  0:52           ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-12 19:47         ` Randy Brukardt
2013-08-09 22:08       ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-09 22:23         ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-09 22:36           ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-09 22:42             ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-09 23:48               ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-09 23:50                 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-09 23:56                 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10  0:44                 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-10  0:51                   ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-09 22:47             ` Alan Jump
2013-08-09 23:33               ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-09 23:43                 ` Alan Jump
2013-08-10  0:19                   ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-10  0:52                   ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-10  0:48                 ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-09 23:40               ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-09 23:25       ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-08-09 18:29 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-09 18:51   ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-09 19:05     ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-09 18:35 ` Simon Wright
2013-08-09 23:21 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-08-09 23:48   ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10  2:45     ` Dennis Lee Bieber [this message]
2013-08-10  3:33       ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10 14:57         ` Shark8
2013-08-10 17:43           ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10 17:55             ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10 23:15             ` Simon Clubley
2013-08-11 12:16               ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-12 18:07               ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-11  0:34             ` Shark8
2013-08-11 12:42               ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-11 13:24                 ` Peter C. Chapin
2013-08-11 13:37                   ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-11 15:15                   ` Mike H
2013-08-12 17:56           ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-10  6:03       ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-12 17:17         ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-08-12 17:27           ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-10 12:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10 12:37   ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10 12:52     ` Emanuel Berg
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