From:    nick <nick@???>

Date:    Wed, 2 Oct 2024 01:35:20 +1000

> ... was a shame they reduced the set datatype to something so
> generic as to be useless.

Discussed in the mailing list a few years back. I don't know the
topic well enough to explain but the reasoning made perfect sense at
the time. If I can find a citation to the list archive, will forward
to you. Or you can go to the list and raise the topic again.

Yes, learn both Ada and C; and any other language you have time for.

Regards,                         ... P.

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