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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ebdc5ed511896a0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: anon@anon.org (anon) Subject: Re: urgent question - generics Reply-To: anon@anon.org (anon) References: <1188809249.040351.100160@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1188819393.588005.23850@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 2.0 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:01:02 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.65.174.11 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1188824462 12.65.174.11 (Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:01:02 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:01:02 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1692 Date: 2007-09-03T13:01:02+00:00 List-Id: In <1188819393.588005.23850@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>, shoshanister@gmail.com writes: >Hi, First, I'm a female. Sorry about calling you a guy, it is an easy mistake to make on the net. >Please don't post any more answers or such. If you look here I will always answer a question with code if possible! Its just the way I am. I even jump of people here for not posting code. Because in a test my code or anyone else code is not going to help, unless you understand it! And the only way is to see the code. >I understand according to what you wrote that I probably did not fully >understand the generics mechanism. In this case, even if you will >answer my question, it will not help me because my exam starts in an >hour. >I posted the question here, after trying to figure things out by my >self, and I had no intention to insult any one of you or to take >advantage of you. No insult or advantage of taken! >In a way, I'm not worried of not passing the exam. The worse thing >that can happen is that I will take the course again, and gain my >knowledge from the teacher as well as from the books, because studying >ADA by your self is not simple. Actually, installing a free GNAT Ada version and starting to program is the BEST way to learn. Teachers only have time to give you an brief understand of any language. In the US that less than 45 hours spanning 15 weeks. Outside programming is the only way to gain a deeper understanding. And asking question with an expectation of an answer is the second best way to gain a direction for that deeper understand. Plus, in my many years experience if a person just say read a section or chapter than they also do not understand the problem or the language. Even my professor would not do that, they would give an example (like I did) and then assign someone an extra assignment that would include the example as a small part of the whole project. The only thing was their projects, either homework or extra assignments were too simple for me, (bored me to death). I actually had to expand them to make the worth my time. My Ada professor use most of my work in Ada to teach his other classes at two universities and wrote a number of text books using my classwork that were used in both Europe and US universities. What I did for my first Ada assignment after modifying it, was rated at doctoral level programming. I even had to have permission from 3 universities and their computer systems to fully execute the assignment. >Thanks a lot for your help. >I hope that some day I will be able to join this group as an equal >member and not just a student. I kind of believe that 50+ % of this group is students.