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From: emery@gypsy.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re:  Unix and user friendly systems
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Date: Fri, 31-May-85 09:37:00 EDT
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I, for one, would like to see some of these ideosyncratic conventions 
in Ada, that rival the set in C.

for instance, consider looping through the characters of a string....

	for (a_char = *str_ptr++, !a_char;)

compared to

	for char_index in a_string'length loop
	    a_char := a_string(char_index);

Which do you understand better?

It is certainly possible to write crapola in any language.  However, no
language (that I know) can match C for its "rich" set of conventions and
aliasing.  

					Dave Emery
			{princeton!ihnp4}!siemens!emery