From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.misty.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 22:37:50 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: who needs types? Types makes code ugly. Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 23:37:51 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <87wndzt8f1.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <09683835-f090-47ce-8a39-467e5fb3167an@googlegroups.com> <87fskmty0c.fsf@bsb.me.uk> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-sJ1Bn070NzpcAKAUJ+Xyyi9lKQZePw2B7IJGeO0id/u3cmQqiQA6T/0gBvIqmkWwWjLAcL4samSwhaY!5eO6e7jPo6j7oIPMi7N9M2TojP6EW7RVQHBR1YhIWWTijTl4P1heFKKn9kD2UzF5nWNkRiJB X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1749 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:63919 List-Id: On Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:02:27 +0100, Ben declaimed the following: > >I don't know much about Ada newer than about 1990. I'll take a look... My condolences -- taken literally, that means you are working with Ada-83 (ANSI/Mil-Std 1815A -- later ISO-8652:1987). The first significant update was Ada-95 (and Air Force funded original GNAT). -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/