Re: Need manual for GNAT on FreeBSD 4.4-Release on i386 (AMD Athlon)

["Gerhard Häring" <gerhard@bigfoot.de>]

Matthew Graybosch wrote:
>  On 2 Jan 2002 03:31:28 GMT
>  Gerhard Hï¿œring <gerhard@bigfoot.de> wrote:
>  
> > Matthew Graybosch schrieb:
> > >  I've been comparing languages for Linux/BSD programming and settled on
> > >  Ada. I installed the FreeBSD 4.4 port of GNAT, 
> > 
> > Excellent choice, both language and OS :-)
>  
>  Thanks. I figure that it's bad enough that I have to work on Windows (using
>  Visual Basic, no less). I'd have to insane to want to deal with Windows at
>  home. Besides, I like Unix. 

VB6? Condolecences. I had that once. I wonder what all the VB shops will do
when they get a half-way real programming language with VB.NET. Now I'm mostly
doing Java. And for fun at home, Python.

> > Looks like the GNAT docs haven't been packaged, yet. I'll file a problem
> > report for it.

Done: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=33459

>  I wonder if I should send a message to the port maintainer as well... I'll
>  do it if he forgets the docs in the next version.

Can't hurt.

>  [...]
>  Hey, the last line in your sig is LISP code, isn't it?

Close, but not quite. Abusing Python's functional features:

Python 2.1.1 (#1, Sep 13 2001, 18:12:15)
[GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release) [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))
'Python rules!'

Gerhard
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reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))