From: Gary Scott <scottg@flash.net>
Subject: Re: Why should hackers love Ada. (Re: Ada 95 based RTOS)
Date: 2000/02/26
Date: 2000-02-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38B80EBA.721830@flash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 897k3c$qgg$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar wrote:
> > > Gary wrote:
> > >> I see this reference to ADA being good at bit twiddling,
> periodically.
> > >> Virtually all high-level languages provide facilities for
> bit twiddling.
>
> Sure, but the facilities in Ada are far more powerful, allow
> more control, and most importantly, provide a much better level
> of abstraction. For example, packed bit arrays are a powerful
> feature missing from C. Sure you can program this yourself in
> C, but it is messy, error prone, and results in ugly and
> possibly inefficient code.
>
C or C++ or both? Fortran 95 has better facilities than C (and certainly better
syntax)...I do wish, however, that support for packed bit arrays was more
widespread.
>
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-02-18 0:00 Ada 95 based RTOS xaplos
2000-02-18 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-02-21 0:00 ` xaplos
2000-02-22 0:00 ` Matthew Majka
2000-02-22 0:00 ` xaplos
2000-02-22 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-22 0:00 ` xaplos
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Roger Racine
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Simon Wright
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-26 0:00 ` xaplos
2000-02-22 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-22 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Why should hackers love Ada. (Re: Ada 95 based RTOS) Marin D. Condic
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-24 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Gary
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Gary
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-26 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-02-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-26 0:00 ` Gary Scott [this message]
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Mike Dimmick
2000-03-10 0:00 ` Wil
2000-03-10 0:00 ` Ada OS again " David Starner
2000-03-11 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
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