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Subject: Re: Ada: A beginners experience
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On Friday, July 13, 2018 at 9:36:32 PM UTC-5, blakemi...@gmail.com wrote:
> At the moment I spend too much time trying understand how to make my tool=
s work, and not enough time
> using my tools.=20

Specifically what do you mean by =E2=80=9Cmake the tools work=E2=80=9D?  Do=
 you spend
1) more time tweaking the command-line and build scripts and surrounding ec=
osystem, as getting exasperated trying to get the toolchain to work togethe=
r (almost independent of Ada-the-language-per-se)=20
or
2) more time having lengthy errors/warnings-from-compiler conversations wit=
h the GNAT compiler about Ada source code, as cycles of learning of learnin=
g Ada itself?