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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Substrings as argument to procedures/functions
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On 26.04.16 00:07, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> Use of predefined types is evil, so who cares?

Anyone coming from just about any other language, since they
have no idea that there could be such a fine thing as user defined
fundamental types! ;-)

So, how does one introduce them to programming in Ada without using
library types but still using strings, and text I/O?