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Subject: Re: Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020)
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On Friday, April 17, 2020 at 12:10:03 AM UTC-4, Andrew Shvets wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 9:04:24 AM UTC-5, AdaMagica wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 3. Dezember 2019 14:57:53 UTC+1 schrieb Lucretia:
> > > People coming from other languages might not grasp types easily,
> >=20
> > Hey, what's difficult to understand in
> >=20
> > type Temperature is range -40 .. 40;  -- Celsius
> >=20
> > for a home thermometer?
>=20
> That's not fair, now is it?  You and I know full well what that means.  B=
ut drop someone who has done C/C++/Java/Python into the same situation and =
it's a sure-fire way of having that person give up and declare that Ada is =
"too hard" or use some other excuse.
>=20
> What does that accomplish?

Darn, I can't edit my original post.

But, the example that you've provided is very simple, but when it comes to =
types in Ada, it's a vast subject and type Temp is range -40 .. 40; does no=
t do it justice.  There is so much more to this than that and to have someo=
ne new to try to untangle the different concepts and make sense of them wil=
l only have them abandon Ada.