From: "Norman H. Cohen" <ncohen@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Ada & Encryption / Compression
Date: 1997/03/05
Date: 1997-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <331DA57B.A79@watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5fikh7$ras$1@nargun.cc.uq.edu.au
David Downie wrote:
> I am thinking about writing an RSA encryption (or some other encryption)
> package. I would like to do it in Ada (rather than the suggested C), but
> am not an Ada expert and do not know if I would just be making things
> difficult for myself.
Bit manipulation is as easy with Ada-95 modular types as with C. If
you're using Ada 83 instead of Ada 95, you have to write unchecked
conversions to and from packed arrays of booleans, which is a mild
nuisance, but not a serious obstacle.
By using Ada instead of C, you are most likely making things easier for
yourself, because Ada's compile-time and run-time checks will reduce
your debugging effort.
--
Norman H. Cohen
mailto:ncohen@watson.ibm.com
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/n/ncohen
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-05 0:00 Ada & Encryption / Compression David Downie
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen [this message]
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Bob Klungle
1997-03-05 0:00 ` John Howard
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1997-03-06 0:00 ` David L Brown
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-06 0:00 ` William W Pritchett
1997-03-06 0:00 ` BSAFE Bindings for Ada (was: Ada & Encryption / Compression) Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Ada & Encryption / Compression John Howard
1997-03-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
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