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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a146,bab58563a24f525a X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/15 Message-ID: <1999Jan15.174135.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 433133111 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369CAB38.404C0610@praxis-cs.co.uk> <77nhuv$29c$3@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> X-Trace: news.decus.org 916440099 672 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.object,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , nobody@0.0 (Peter) writes: > In article <77nhuv$29c$3@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk > (Markus Kuhn) wrote: >> One distinguishing feature of Ada is that it gives very good >> low-level control about numerical types and numerical precision >> in a very portable way. C/C++ programmers have to use a lot of dirty >> tricks or configuration files to obtain assurances that Ada >> programmers can just specify directly to the compiler. > > I would like to find out more about how Ada handles this. Where does the > Ada standard live? Follow the links from www.adahome.com, but I would recommend starting with something called the "Rationale" which is a bit more expository. Since portability of numeric types started with Ada83 and is old hat to Ada folk, you might consider some of the other documents as well. Larry Kilgallen