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Subject: Re: Why .ads as well as .adb?
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On Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 10:39:21 AM UTC-5, Brad Moore wrote:
> Consider a java class from an example of the n-body problem from the Computer Benchmarks Game website;
> 
> See https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/program/nbody-java-5.html
> 
> For the comparison, examine the NBodySystem class, which is the bulk of the example, which appears to be a well written java program.
> 
> Imagine someone handed you this class and you asked you to write a program that uses it. It takes a bit of reading to pull out the important parts, just to figure out how to use the class.

Why would someone hand you the source code? It's more likely they would hand you the output from javadoc, and you'd work with that.

john perry