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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
Subject: Re: what are some of the uses for ada?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:58:39 -0700
Date: 2010-06-08T19:58:39-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hun01g$emp$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6ceb6f55-3d50-403d-8373-13401d1b26fd@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com

On 6/8/2010 6:06 PM, Gautier write-only wrote:

> you'll
> write "for i in x'Range loop" rather than having to pass a 'n' integer
> and putting the wrong upper bound on your loop. And so on...
>

Along the same thought, I like that in Ada one can easily define an 
array to start from 0 instead from 1. Depending on the problem. This can 
make the coding much simpler. (less chance of making one-off error).

In other languages, arrays starts from either 1 or 0.

--Nasser



  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-09  2:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-08 19:43 what are some of the uses for ada? Robin
2010-06-08 21:04 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-06-08 21:56 ` nobody
2010-06-12  9:40   ` Robin
2010-06-09  1:06 ` Gautier write-only
2010-06-09  2:58   ` Nasser M. Abbasi [this message]
2010-06-09  4:10     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-06-09  4:37     ` (see below)
2010-06-09  7:21 ` What are some of the uses for Ada? Jacob Sparre Andersen
2010-06-09  7:30   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-06-09  7:38     ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-06-09  7:41     ` J-P. Rosen
2010-06-09  7:25 ` what are some of the uses for ada? Ludovic Brenta
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