Re: Porting ADA source

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Well, you do present some constructive alternatives. I've just often 
found myself in the position of polishing a turd and "Quick & Dirty" can 
be an effective solution. It depends on how much work you want to put 
into it.

MDC

tmoran@acm.org wrote:

>   Not "Morally Evil", just "Generally A Poor Solution".
> In in the current OP's situation, he can use "renames" for his
> differently named library packages/routines, representation clauses
> to be explicit about layout of data structures, and problem-oriented,
> rather than (obsolete) hardware-oriented types to specify the sizes
> of integers, floats, etc.  ie, which is better:

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