[GAP] advice on Ada in general programming languages course

[Robert Dewar]

Alejandro R. Mosteo wrote:

> There are a some obstacles in teaching Ada to novices that I find it's 
> important to alleviate as fast as possible: string types are a glaring 
> example (provide some package based around unbounded strings). These 
> kind of things are at first completely ackwards to people used to 
> scripting/gc languages. While is important to understand properly the 
> unconstrained types, I see no point in doing exhaustive manipulation of 
> character buffers when doing I/O at first. That's just boring and 
> painful. At least that's what I remember from my Ada (83) origins.

Can you say why Unbounded is not OK as is (why it needs wrapping), and
give some idea of what wrapping you have in mind?