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: 103376,7ec96df455443b0a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.tornevall.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: what are some of the uses for ada? Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:10:26 -0700 Organization: TornevallNET - http://news.tornevall.net Message-ID: References: <8a40983e-59b4-4622-94fa-cd39146060bc@d37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <6ceb6f55-3d50-403d-8373-13401d1b26fd@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: b14c7fe2c4b05629c154d72a779423eb Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ba59b0bc1bc4a7bd055348922756e283 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tornevall.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100411) X-Complaints-Language: Spoken language is english or swedish - NOT ITALIAN, FRENCH, GERMAN OR ANY OTHER LANGUAGE! In-Reply-To: X-Validate-Post: http://news.tornevall.net/validate.php?trace=ba59b0bc1bc4a7bd055348922756e283 X-SpeedUI: 1738 X-Complaints-Italiano: Non abbiamo padronanza della lingua italiana - se mandate una email scrivete solo in Inglese, grazie X-Posting-User: 0243687135df8c4b260dd4a9a93c79bd Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:12457 Date: 2010-06-08T21:10:26-07:00 List-Id: Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > > Along the same thought, I like that in Ada one can easily define an > array to start from 0 instead from 1. Or 23, or Blue, or whatever is meaningful for the problem. The idea in Ada is to model the problem in the SW, not translate the problem into terms defined by the language. -- Jeff Carter "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" Monty Python's Flying Circus 22