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From: Gary <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: Why should hackers love Ada. (Re: Ada 95 based RTOS)
Date: 2000/02/23
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Hi,

"Marin D. Condic" wrote:

> Ehud Lamm wrote:
> >
> In some ways, you'd think "hackers" should be fascinated with Ada. It
> provides all sorts of facilities to do bit-twiddling and low level
> access to the hardware.

I see this reference to ADA being good at bit twiddling, periodically.
Virtually all high-level languages provide facilities for bit twiddling.  Is
there something unique about ADA (I'm a non-ADA programmers, sorry).  Is this
a reference to a transfer function (other languages have this) or memory
aliasing tricks?