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From: "Samuel T. Harris" <sam_harris@hso.link.com>
Subject: Re: Confusing language,
 was Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in  ada programing
Date: 1999/11/15
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Nick Roberts wrote:
> 
> Robert Dewar wrote:

>snip<

> 
> Much better idea. Maybe a new configuration pragma could be used for
> this job?
> 
> pragma Default_Stream_IO ( Intrinsic | Standard );
> 
> Intrinsic would invoke the current recommended scheme (efficient
> in-memory images), and so be the default. Standard would invoke a scheme
> which precisely specified the binary format of every possible Ada type
> (for all four attributes Read, Write, Input, and Output). I think this
> would have to be in terms of architectures which had byte (or
> byte-multiple) stream elements and elementary types; architectures which
> didn't would simply have to ignore the pragma or interpret it in their
> own way (but issue a warning!).
> 
> Submission for an AI?
> 

I'd add Textual to that list. I found while doing distributed
command and control systems, having a textual representation
for all network traffic made much of the testing and debugging
a breeze. Of course, efficient binary as well as secured
encrypted formats were also available.

-- 
Samuel T. Harris, Principal Engineer
Raytheon, Scientific and Technical Systems
"If you can make it, We can fake it!"