From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020) Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:14:47 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87blsp43x4.fsf@nightsong.com> References: <87muca3vgd.fsf@nightsong.com> <57d49047-0a61-4d13-8822-d004732a3acc@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="bb2b94436dfe679cdf0a1e88371f7c14"; logging-data="29088"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+VRDd7r4c/IT+77feSxLtA" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:b+UwVINqj+jkOQlPegtGDqBQoqE= sha1:sogcdhQ2F9KTLdHC8JSVYiF2KRo= Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:57646 Date: 2019-12-03T11:14:47-08:00 List-Id: "J-P. Rosen" writes: > Yes there is! (see my paper at the last Ada-Europe). The first message > when you teach Ada is that it is all about defining proper types. You > have to start by fighting bad habits from other languages. Is your paper online? I'm interested in seeing it. I think Haskell is even more type-intensive than Ada, but nobody has problems using Haskell's ground types (e.g. Integer) when appropriate.