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From: haseltine@onramp.net (Doug Haseltine)
Subject: Re: LZW
Date: 1998/02/19
Date: 1998-02-19T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34ecc697.6390765@news.onramp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.887776085@merv


dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:

>What on earth is the point of translating the C to Ada in a case like this?
>Why not simply interface to the C code.
>
>Sounds like a lot of work that (a) achieves nothing and (b) substantially
>increases the risks.

Both very good points.  I believe those were amongst the
myriad of reasons for dropping the Ada mandate.  We,
however, had no contractual choice in the matter at the
time.





  reply	other threads:[~1998-02-19  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-02-16  0:00 LZW Vicious
1998-02-18  0:00 ` LZW Doug Haseltine
1998-02-17  0:00   ` LZW Robert Dewar
1998-02-19  0:00     ` Doug Haseltine [this message]
1998-02-18  0:00   ` LZW John M. Mills
1998-02-19  0:00   ` LZW Vicious
1998-02-20  0:00     ` LZW Markus Kuhn
1998-02-20  0:00       ` LZW Brian Rogoff
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