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From: john@nospam.demon.co.uk (John McCabe)
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Subject: Re: Newbee question
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:32:11 GMT
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On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 04:04:14 GMT, "James S. Rogers"
<jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>You have at least as much control over data representations as
>you have in C or C++.

I wouldn't have put it that way - you have far more control over data
representations than you have in C or C++. Record representation
clauses (as long as the compiler supports them) are very well defined.
In C and C++ bit-fields are a bit of a hit and miss affair.

Ada's enumerated types are also far superior to those of C/C++ (except
they have to be in order!).

> You have the ability to call assembler routines.

And any other language that may come in useful (even C if you must :-)

>To be truthful, your posting quoted above sounds like the
>efforts of a troll rather than a report of an honest effort to
>learn a language.

Some of it. Some of it sounds like he has a genuine interest.

Best Regards
John McCabe

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