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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: S-expression I/O in Ada
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:58:23 -0400
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Natacha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@gmail.com> writes:

> That's almost the point where
> I stop trying to understand and just give up everything, Ada looks way
> above my brain's capabilities.

Most of this discussion is about the design of a program that
might or might not use S-expressions.  It's got little or nothing
to do with Ada!

If your brain can understand the complexities of C (when do
arrays "decay" into pointers?  how do you typedef an array
of pointers to functions returning pointers to functions
returning void?  what's a "sequence point"?), then I assure
you it can deal with Ada.

- Bob