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From: "Steve Whalen" <SteveWhalen001@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Translating an embedded C algorithm
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Niklas Holsti wrote:
> ... I think that an Ada translation of this C function can, with a bit of
> elaboration, illustrate several Ada features for "programming in the
> small", even if not for "programming in the large".
>
> So here is my try at an Ada version of the code and some of the context. ...

Thank you for taking the time to create the Ada version of the example.

I agree with the others that it is very well done. Even if your example
were not as well done as it is, almost any correct Ada example would
have been vastly better than a blank page in a book. Especially in a
book targeted at a field where Ada should be considered more frequently
than it is.

If you hadn't created this example, the author also would have been
quite justified in putting a comment in the book that the programmers
on comp.lang.ada think Ada is not well suited to embedded programming
(or at least that it would be too much work to create an illustrative
Ada example).

Thanks again for taking the time to write the Ada code. Maybe Martin
can find a place for it in his Wiki book on Ada programming.

Also, you might want to send a copy of the code to the OP, since I'm
not sure the OP is still reading this thread, given the relatively
unprofessional reception the OP was given here.

Steve