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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: what are some of the uses for ada?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:58:39 -0700
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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