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From: "Adrian Hoe" <abyhoe@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What about big integers in Ada 2005?
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adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> "Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
> news:imsuj1h8vevg4un71rmh0nc41pnee5ihjl@4ax.com...
> >
> > Of course, my college mainframe actually had a 32-digit hardware BCD
> > ALU (which failed one term -- COBOL classes were stuck, but FORTRAN,
> > using integer and floating ALU hardware, proceeded apace).
> >
> I wonder if anyone has implemented a BCD package?  Also, in COBOL,
> programmers routinely design using packed decimal.   I don't know of any
> corresponding package in Ada.   I suspect this is one of the many reasons
> Ada has consistently failed to win any support in the information systems
> world.
>
> Unfortunately, the Information Systems annex falls short of what COBOL
> programmers really want.   Perhaps we could re-design the Information
> Systems Annex someday to bring it into conformity with common IS
> practice.  Probably too late.   The damage is already done.


I thought Swiss Bank is using some software developed in Ada. If I
recall correctly, Paranor was the developer. How did they do that if IS
Annex falls short?

I remember that I asked for BCD package sometime ago and someone
responded. But my project ditched the idea of using BCD and I did not
have to pursue in BCD then.

--
Adrian Hoe