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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: S-expression I/O in Ada
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"Natacha Kerensikova" <lithiumcat@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:9db37b80-acbb-4c9f-a646-34f108f52985@v15g2000yqe.googlegroups.com...
...
>Now I can't explain why your posts [referring to Dmitry here - RLB]
>often make me feel Ada is
>completely out of my tastes in programming languages, while other
>people's posts often make me feel Ada is probably an improvement over
>C in term of personal preferences. However I have the feeling I got
>much more personal improvement from your posts (improvement still
>meaningful even if I eventually drop Ada to come back to C), and I'm
>grateful for that.

I suspect this is because Dmitry's worldview is ummm, unusual, for the lack 
of a better word. I suspect some of what he is describing is more confusing 
than helpful to a newcomer. As someone else pointed out, there are about as 
many worldviews as there are programmers. This newsgroup has a very diverse 
set of worldviews, and you will find that there rarely is agreement about 
anything much more complicated than the proper way to write "Ada". So it is 
important that you find a style that works for you, and don't read too much 
into anyone else's style.

OTOH, you'll also get suggestions on improving your style that most of us 
would agree with. *Everyone* can improve their style and learn something 
from others...

                   Randy.