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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,caabf5265fad78e5 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!not-for-mail From: Peter Hermann Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Learning Ada Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:38:21 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Message-ID: References: <59O1m.404661$4m1.69194@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <62792744-daca-437b-bdee-4b8a21f7ce27@j32g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <82oq45tj2uu26u6ecsgq70bsjskr9dvghr@4ax.com> <878wj61bpo.fsf_-_@nbi.dk> X-Trace: infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de 1246610301 23680 141.58.7.20 (3 Jul 2009 08:38:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.uni-stuttgart.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:38:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.9.2-20070201 ("Dalaruan") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.18-6-686 (i686)) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6821 Date: 2009-07-03T08:38:21+00:00 List-Id: Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: > It might be to push things a bit too far, but I think it would be > beneficial, if the types Float and Integer were removed from the > language. caveat. pragmatism needs them due to a lot of reasons: I would need a full day to list them.