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On 2023-09-05 01:16, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

> The term "abstraction" is usually taken to be more general than that so
> as to include function (or procedural) abstraction.

These are means of software decomposition rather than abstraction (of 
something).

> Ada is good at that, but the syntax is sufficiently cumbersome that I
> think it discourages people from exploiting that part of the language.
> Mind you, I am no Ada expert so maybe it's simpler to do than I think.

If the program does not resemble electric transmission noise, some 
people call the language syntax cumbersome... (:-))

> Here's my Ada solution:
> 
> with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
> with Ada.Containers.Ordered_Maps; use Ada.Containers;
> 
> procedure Euler_26 is
> 
>     function Period(Divisor: Positive) return Positive is

You cannot use a number here because the period may have leading zeros.

> I know it won't make this program shorter, but it would be interesting
> to know how it might be done.

The goal of engineering is not making programs shorter, it is to make 
them understandable, safer, reusable, maintainable, extensible, integrable.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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