From: snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva)
Subject: Re: Is there a better (Ada) way?
Date: 23 Oct 2003 11:33:33 -0700
Date: 2003-10-23T11:33:33-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20619edc.0310231033.1d856ed7@posting.google.com> (raw)
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sk <noname@myob.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.179.1066850672.25614.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>...
> Mike Silva <snarflemike@yahoo.com>:
> > ... sure I'm not writing "C in Ada" ...
>
> I was playing with an assembler written in Ada a while
> ago. I also played with a small kernel.
>
> After trying many awkward Ada ways, I came to the
> conclusion that sometimes the "C" (masking, shifting
> etc) way was a lot cleaner to look at, read and maintain
> than hammering it into an "Ada way" of doing it.
>
> So maybe, at the bit-twiddling level, C-in-Ada might
> not be a bad way to go.
>
I understand what you're saying, but I do want to force myself to do
this in the spirit of Ada for the learning value. Maybe I'll learn
that you're right! :)
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-22 18:56 Is there a better (Ada) way? Mike Silva
2003-10-22 19:33 ` sk
2003-10-23 18:33 ` Mike Silva [this message]
2003-10-22 20:50 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-23 16:57 ` Mike Silva
2003-10-23 21:42 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-24 1:42 ` Mike Silva
2003-10-23 3:12 ` Steve
2003-10-23 18:30 ` Mike Silva
2003-10-24 22:20 ` Nick Roberts
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