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Author: Nick
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On 05-10-2024 19:55, Didier Kryn wrote:
>
>     Hi Steve,
>
>     While I'm relatively comfortable with reading/writing English, I'm
> not so when it comes to understand what people say orally. I used to
> participate to many meetings in English during my career, but it was
> with physically present attendees and exercised to speak to people of
> other mother tongues. Only during the last few years I gained some
> familiarity with Skype, but none with other similar media. Anyway I
> think I'm even missing the headset.
>
>     But the main objection I have to make, and I'm sorry of it, is
> that I didn't read or write a single line of Ada for nearly 10 years,
> after less than 10 years practice. I'd be currently unable to write a
> basic program. I have 44 years of practice in the C language and maybe
> 8 in Ada; and even in C, I often need to search the web.
>
>     When I have finished the special web server I'm currently
> developping in C, which has grown bigger than I expected, my intention
> is to re-learn Ada while re-writing the application in this language.
> I bet it'll take me a few weeks to find again my way -- I enjoy it by
> advance. Then I might be able to teach basics of Ada, But not now,
> sorry again.
>
>     I hope someone else in this forum might do it.
>
> --     Didier
>

Just curiosity but what is so special that you are writing a complete
new web server for it?