From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!feeder2-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:45:30 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 4 beginner's questions on the PL Ada Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 22:45:35 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <87ob96ajv6.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <877gfucton.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.68.178.245 X-Trace: sv3-LbpQ+Q848L+cooVZY8xmv0YZzEO/cJWKdXAzTWXXhc0xNn/yR7ikd3+wp22sCJkO+7RpFnaofLZLxoE!cPDFyXOqbFewQTmmCksh2/h0MRLUHZgblVpRj7EflkKcbVQSWLF66j3Cz/jSqXlCEt5JNotTnMGZ!77ZXPevqL8n5YOqZ7hosihOUJDGw X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2846 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:182928 Date: 2013-08-09T22:45:35-04:00 List-Id: On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 01:48:08 +0200, Emanuel Berg 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/