From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: Ada is almost useless in embedded systems
Date: 1996/03/15
Date: 1996-03-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ichi8$17tg@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9603131418.AA01642@eight-ball
In article <9603131418.AA01642@eight-ball>, Bob Crispen
<revbob@EIGHT-BALL.HV.BOEING.COM> writes:
|> What I'm shocked at is that Ada stopped at 16! How hard would it have
|> been to permit *any* numeric base? Anyone who's ever written a Forth
|> compiler knows how simple it is, and how useful things like base-36
|> encoding can be. How many encoding/decoding routines have been written
|> that could have been obviated by making the compiler do this work?
And for bases 37 and higher, from what alphabet do you choose the digits
for 36, 37, 38, ...?
Let's face it, based literals were placed in Ada to provide a clear
correspondence with bit patterns and with specifications expressed in
binary, octal, or hex. Has anybody out there ever found a genuine
application for literals in any of the bases 3 .. 7 | 9 | 11 .. 15?
--
Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com
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1996-03-15 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen [this message]
1996-03-15 0:00 ` Ada is almost useless in embedded systems Robert Dewar
1996-03-18 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-03-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-18 0:00 ` Stephen Crawley
1996-03-19 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
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1996-02-17 0:00 ` Tore Joergensen
1996-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-19 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-02-19 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
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1996-02-17 0:00 ` Ken & Virginia Garlington
1996-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-18 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-19 0:00 ` John McCabe
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1996-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-18 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-19 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-02-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
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1996-02-19 0:00 ` AdaWorks
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Hugh Dunne
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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1996-02-22 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-02-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-02-19 0:00 ` R.A.L Williams
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-02-19 0:00 ` AdaWorks
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-02-23 0:00 ` AdaWorks
1996-02-26 0:00 ` R.A.L Williams
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1996-03-21 0:00 ` John McCabe
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1996-03-15 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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1996-03-18 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-03-18 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-03-16 0:00 ` Kevin Dalley
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