From: Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020)
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 08:06:55 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2019-12-03T08:06:55-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <be3b770c-9e58-4af0-bf69-c97de02eecc5@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27b11294-d628-4118-8328-a4a9a3946937@googlegroups.com>
On Tuesday, 3 December 2019 15:29:15 UTC, Optikos wrote:
> There is a wise middle ground between the 2 extremes between what you & AdaMagica are saying.
>
> strict) AdaMagica appears to be saying that rock-solid analysis of finding the upper & lower bounds of the integer's range (or fixed or floating point or BCD for that matter) is of crucial insight & importance to understanding the problem.
>
> loose) You appear to be saying that for rapid prototyping that that deep analysis can be postponed.
That's not what I'm saying at all!
I'm saying to get someone used to the language, there is no problem with starting them off with the ready defined types, but explaining ranges a little later on, literally, within pages of themselves.
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2019-12-03 4:05 Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020) Paul Rubin
2019-12-03 12:11 ` AdaMagica
2019-12-03 12:33 ` Lucretia
2019-12-03 13:21 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-12-03 13:57 ` Lucretia
2019-12-03 14:04 ` AdaMagica
2019-12-03 14:15 ` AdaMagica
2019-12-03 14:39 ` Simon Wright
2019-12-03 14:45 ` Shark8
2019-12-03 17:38 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-12-03 15:04 ` Lucretia
2019-12-03 15:29 ` Optikos
2019-12-03 16:06 ` Lucretia [this message]
2019-12-03 16:26 ` Optikos
2019-12-03 16:50 ` Lucretia
2019-12-03 17:02 ` Shark8
2019-12-03 17:29 ` AdaMagica
2019-12-05 16:35 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2019-12-05 17:12 ` AdaMagica
2019-12-09 19:08 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2019-12-06 18:34 ` Shark8
2019-12-06 20:29 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-12-06 21:05 ` Shark8
2019-12-07 0:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-12-14 4:21 ` Keith Thompson
2019-12-14 11:34 ` AdaMagica
2019-12-03 17:39 ` Optikos
2019-12-03 19:12 ` Paul Rubin
2019-12-14 4:34 ` Paul Rubin
2020-04-17 5:14 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17 6:17 ` Teaching Ada types J-P. Rosen
2020-04-29 13:07 ` Mehdi Saada
2020-04-29 21:25 ` Paul Rubin
2020-04-17 4:27 ` Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020) Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17 12:44 ` Ludovic Brenta
2020-04-17 13:07 ` Jere
2020-04-17 14:31 ` Optikos
2019-12-03 20:40 ` Björn Lundin
2020-04-17 4:16 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17 4:11 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17 15:32 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-04-17 4:10 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17 5:02 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17 4:08 ` Andrew Shvets
2019-12-03 19:14 ` Paul Rubin
2019-12-04 6:47 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-12-04 6:49 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-12-04 9:46 ` Paul Rubin
2020-04-17 4:07 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17 5:49 ` J-P. Rosen
2020-04-17 17:59 ` AdaMagica
2020-04-17 19:28 ` Optikos
2020-04-18 15:29 ` AdaMagica
2020-04-18 16:34 ` cantanima.perry
2020-04-18 17:59 ` Jere
2020-04-18 21:54 ` cantanima.perry
2020-04-18 22:18 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-04-18 22:33 ` Jere
2020-04-19 0:52 ` Jere
2020-04-19 2:23 ` Keith Thompson
2020-04-18 22:37 ` Jere
2020-04-19 0:42 ` Paul Rubin
2020-05-02 19:13 ` dave_thompson_2
2020-04-23 18:43 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-23 21:07 ` Paul Rubin
2020-04-23 21:33 ` Optikos
2020-04-23 21:42 ` Paul Rubin
2020-04-24 14:42 ` Optikos
2020-04-24 15:35 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2020-04-30 8:01 ` Paul Rubin
2020-04-23 18:45 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-11-02 21:14 ` Norman Worth
2020-04-17 4:04 ` Andrew Shvets
2019-12-10 5:17 ` Jerry
2020-04-17 3:58 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-05-09 12:39 ` Chris Collings
2020-10-03 4:23 ` andrew...@gmail.com
2020-10-28 19:21 ` sany...@gmail.com
2020-11-11 1:41 ` Azathoth Hastur
2020-11-12 21:24 ` Shark8
2020-11-12 22:31 ` Chris Townley
2020-11-17 20:48 ` azathot...@gmail.com
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