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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:01:51 GMT, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:

> And that's because Ada comes with a type named String which
> behaves nothing at all like strings in C or C++, being just
> a name for an array of characters, which may be declared with
> runtime bounds or returned from a function but is then fixed
> in size.
>
> The concept is foreign to C programmers, for whom arrays in
> expressions decay to pointers, and which cannot be passed or
> returned by value. And I'll bet that *no one explains this*
> when teaching Ada. The semantic gap becomes so large that it's
> no wonder that C programmers wind up frustrated when trying to
> do simple things that work properly in their old language.

That's an interesting observation, Hyman.  Out of genuine curiosity, do  
you feel that Simon Johnston's tutorial addresses is reasonably?

http://www.adahome.com/Ammo/cpp2ada.html#1.1.3

- Ed