From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,245c84afd1e393ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!217.73.144.44.MISMATCH!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.hispeed.ch!linux2.krischik.com!news From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What about big integers in Ada 2005? Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 08:48:28 +0200 Organization: Cablecom Newsserver Message-ID: <1429944.MKM4i5j9k2@linux1.krischik.com> References: <1581461.uQ1jN63t33@linux1.krischik.com> <5mo0f.529$B14.97@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com> <1128608462.504972.25050@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 80-218-113-178.dclient.hispeed.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.hispeed.ch 1128668082 2555 80.218.113.178 (7 Oct 2005 06:54:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 06:54:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.9.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5485 Date: 2005-10-07T08:48:28+02:00 List-Id: Adrian Hoe wrote: > adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote: >> "Dennis Lee Bieber" 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? Well, it's the Swiss PostFinance. But there is not much interfacing with COBOL - it's all done Ada. Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com