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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Portability of Arithmetic (was: Java vs Ada 95)
Date: 1996/10/17
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In article <DzFC07.LMw@world.std.com>, bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) writes:
> In article <326628B8.7724@gsfc.nasa.gov>,
> Stephen Leake  <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:

>>... In Ada, the compiler tells me when it can't do
>>that.
> 
> So you port some code, and find that the compiler can't handle it.
> So you have to rewrite a bunch of code.  Yuck.

No, Hooray !  We have learned a lesson in reading specifications of
compilers before we go to depend upon them.  Industry might prefer
that educators spin off a "GNAT-lite" with pathetically inadequate
(but standard-conforming) limits as a target for their student's
first porting exercise.

No, I don't think it is better for them to learn in an environment
like Java where everything is always the same, because life is not
that way.

Larry Kilgallen