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From: Pascal Obry
Subject: Re: Three simple questions
Date: 2000/10/10
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Frank Christiny writes:
> Friends,
>
> Having arrived recently into the green Adian world, I am trying to
> assimilate all there is to know about this powerful, unfairly
> maligned computer language. Most questions I have been able to
> answer from the FAQs here and there but there are three (so far) that
> have gone unanswered:
>
> 1. What is the correct pronunciation of Dr. Ichbiah's name?
> Is the "ch" pronounced as in "Loch" or as in "each"? Is the
> final "h" is silent?
It is like in "each" and yes the "h" is silent.
>
> 2. What is the rationale for case-insensitivity in the language?
> I am beginning to think it is mostly for historical reasons
> (some machines didn't have two case letters way back then, etc.).
> Are there any real technical reasons for why this is so even
> after Ada95, besides preserving backwards compatibilty?
Safety and readability. Why should this_is_a_long_var be differente to
THIS_IS_A_Long_Var ? Human should not care about case-sensitive name in
a program but about the meaning of it... just my 2cents :)
> 3. How can one block-comment in Ada?
> It can become cumbersome sometimes, adding all those "--"s in
> front of a large block of code one wants to "test out" on the fly.
> Again, are there any good technical-engineering reasons why this
> feature was left out?
Any good IDE will do that. AdaGIDE, ada-mode, Glide...
Pascal.
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