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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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Le mardi 8 mai 2018 04:19:42 UTC+2, Paul Rubin a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:

> Yes, I hit a few snags but was able to build and run it.  I would
> suggest recreating the zip file with a Linux zip program, since it
> appears to have been built with a Windows program that the Linux one
> doesn't know how to decode (I was able to get around that).

The Zip format is system-agnostic (shameless plug : https://unzip-ada.sourc=
eforge.io/ )

> It's an interesting program, going against what I've always been taught
> as principles of flexible software because of all the compiled-in data.
> But the result is like a 50 foot cube of solid granite, completely
> impervious to anything, and in Ada that might be a virtue.

You are shifting again the subject: the point was to understand with a simp=
le example how you can use Ada's unconstrained types without accumulating g=
arbage...