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$50,000 for KILLING FBI, CIA, NSA and NIS DIRECTORS
I will pay $50,000 for KILLING the FBI, CIA, NSA and NIS Directors Robert Mueller III, Bob Gates, Keith Alexander and Dennis Blair for secretly and illegally torturing millions of Americans. Remember.....every human being has the RIGHT to KILL PSYCHOPATHS who torture them in "Self Defense". This has nothing to... 26 May 2010 05:52

Access types - what's happening here?
Looking at Cohen's "Ada as a 2nd Language" I see in chapter 8 (Access Types), p.319, this construct which I do not understand. But first, the construct I do understand: Old_Serial_Number := Serial_Number("Lovelace, Ada").all; No confusion about that whatsoever. However, that is followed by this: "More... 25 May 2010 20:09

Improving the first contact with Ada (was: GCC conflict on Ubuntu for mixed Ada/C++ project)
zeta_no <olivier_henley(a)hotmail.com> writes: [...] Note: I don't want to be unpleasant, but I have to criticized the Ada community for not being well organized. I see a desire from the main actors to popularize Ada among developpers. You just have to look at the videos, conferences and news from AdaCore ... 24 May 2010 19:01

Looking For Simple Routine To Put Integer Into Float
Can you modify the below code to convert an integer variable of 32 bits to a variable of type float. type Unknown_integer_type is range -(2**16) ..(2**16) -1; -- 32 Bit Integer An_Unknown_Integer: Unknown_integer_type; An_Integer: Integer; A_Float: Float; -- Hoping this float is usually 32 bits ... 25 May 2010 13:30

Emacs and long file names
This isn't really about Ada, but I figure it probably affects readers of this newsgroup more than many others. I've been using GNU Emacs for my Ada sources for a long time. Recently, I needed it on a new machine, so I installed a recent version of GNU Emacs. A major annoyance is that the Electric Buffer List no... 29 May 2010 13:32

SPARK syntax and “use type” : lack of feature ?
Hi, I meet a strange behavior with the SPARK syntax checker (via the examiner). If I have something of the form procedure My_Procedure is Who_Know_What : Who_Know_What_Type; use type My_Type; begin ... bla-bla-bla ... end My_Procedure; it's OK. While if I have s... 26 May 2010 06:57

Ada-Belgium Spring 2010 Event, registration deadline approaching
----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Call for Participation A d a - B e l g i u m S p r i n g 2 0 1 0 E v e n t Saturday, June 5, 2010, 12:00-19:00 Leuven, Belgium ... 23 May 2010 03:52

info version of Ada reference manuals
I've published an updated version of the Ada reference manuals in info format. No change in the content; just fixed some info bugs. http://www.stephe-leake.org/ada/arm.html I'm working on packaging this for Debian. -- -- Stephe ... 22 May 2010 06:12

Symbolic tracebacks on Debian
Ludovic Brenta <ludovic(a)ludovic-brenta.org> writes: On the other hand, since nobody noticed or reported this problem before you and gnat-4.3 has been in Debian since 2008-01-30, I'm starting to wonder whether symbolic tracebacks are all that useful. Because symbolic traceback are not supported on _all_... 26 May 2010 03:44

Ada Debian policy plea
It would be extremely helpful if Ada Debian policy contained a template or example of an Ada library package creation. P.S. Debian packaging tool chain is beyond understanding of a mortal man. P.P.S. Existing tools to convert RPM spec. files to Debian are not conform with the policy, e.g. "debbuild" creates onl... 22 May 2010 05:08