Re: GNAT GPL is proving...educational

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Adam Beneschan" <adambeneschan@aol.com> wrote in message 
news:3ebb953d-070c-46a6-99d1-611c5a79f72f@googlegroups.com...
>> On Monday, July 22, 2013 12:04:00 PM UTC-7, Alan Jump wrote:
>>
>>> I still find myself wishing for a better "introductory" text than 
>>> Barnes; I'm a neophyte coder,
>>> not a language lawyer. And it's already been said elsewhere (several 
>>> times!) that the LRM
>>> is written as a cure for insomnia.
>>
>> I don't recommend using LRM 3.10.2 for that purpose since it will lead to 
>> nightmares.  :) :)

Only if the reader understands enough of it to get in trouble. (Like us.) 
For a neophyte coder, it might as well be written in ancient Latin. :-)

It's definitely not for nothing that 3.10.2 has the (unofficial) name "The 
Heart of Darkness". AARM 3.10.2(3.b/3) describes this as " Woe unto all who 
enter here (well, at least unto anyone that needs to understand any of these 
rules)."

                                              Randy.

P.S. I was asked by the ARG to put that note into the AARM; it wasn't my 
idea and perhaps it would have been more entertaining if it had been mine. 
(Or maybe much less entertaining. :-)