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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: C getchar() functionality in Ada
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:44:02 -0500
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> Thomas Locke wrote:
>> But I understand what you're saying: No end of line characters in Ada!
                                                                  ^^^^^^
...in Ada.Text_IO.

>> Except perhaps when using Get_Immediate and Look_Ahead?
>
> The Ada design has the same error here as Pascal did.
      ^^^^^^^^^^
...Ada.Text_IO design...

Text_IO is a bit broken, I agree.  But you can also use streams,
or you can interface directly to the underlying OS primitives.

Ada has a lot of strengths, but unfortunately, the design of the
Ada.Text_IO package is not one of them.

- Bob