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From: Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lfwc.lockheed.com>
Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because...
Date: 1996/07/02
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Mike Roske wrote:
> 
> > As far as I am aware, it's quite possible to do all those things you can
> > do in C in Ada too.
> >
> 
> Ok, then here's a challenge.  Point me at any compress/decompress
> package (a la Zip) written in Ada.

Actually, I wrote an Ada implementation of Huffman encoding some years ago,
just for the fun of it. I'd give it to you, but I never used it for anything real
and so I didn't keep it.

If you have a "C" implementation of Zip, you can
either (1) just interface it with your Ada code, so long as you don't mind maintaining
the C fragment, or (2) take the C implementation, extract the algorithm, and
implement it in Ada. Both should be straightforward to do.

I think you'll find that, if there's already plenty of good implementations of
an algorithm in C, FORTRAN, etc., there's not a lot of motivation to recode them.
I suspect most Ada programmers want to solve problems that haven't already been
solved to death. :)

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