From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-10 10:04:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!news1.tor.metronet.ca!nnrp1.tor.metronet.ca!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BC47FBA.5000702@home.com> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is Ada dying? References: <3BC0B670.4B68D8DC@acm.org> <3BC23B9F.3B025363@pea.dk> <05Dw7.21484$ev2.29726@www.newsranger.com> <9pv2qu0kdo@drn.newsguy.com> <3BC35E74.E9C77736@easystreet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:04:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:04:58 MDT Organization: MetroNet Communications Group Inc. Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14176 Date: 2001-10-10T17:04:58+00:00 List-Id: Al Christians wrote: > "Robert*@" wrote: ... > Very strange world, indeed. A few years back, when I tried to use > the COBOL interface package that came with one Ada 95 compiler, > I found that it didn't work. When I tried to figure out why, I found > that the source code for the packed decimal features was broken as > designed, and that it probably couldn't have worked at all to provide > any interface to packed decimal data. This was not a brand new > product, and the interface features are frequently mentioned among the > major advantages of Ada. But maybe they don't get a lot of use. > Maybe they don't get any use. IDK. Indeed, one of the very important aspects of business programming is to be able to accurately compute in DECIMAL numbers and to format them with picture strings. Poor Ada support for these two very basic things, hurts its applicability to business. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg