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From: crawley@dstc.edu.au (Stephen Crawley)
Subject: Re: Ada is almost useless in embedded systems
Date: 1996/03/18
Date: 1996-03-18T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4iiclr$59j@azure.dstc.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4ichi8$17tg@watnews1.watson.ibm.com

In article <4ichi8$17tg@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>,
Norman H. Cohen <ncohen@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
>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, ...?

Kanji?  We should be able to handle bases of a hundred thousand or so
if we try hard enough.

[Don't try this at home kids :-)]

-- Steve






  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-03-18  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <9603131418.AA01642@eight-ball>
1996-03-15  0:00 ` Ada is almost useless in embedded systems Norman H. Cohen
1996-03-15  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-18  0:00   ` Stephen Crawley [this message]
1996-03-18  0:00   ` Peter Hermann
1996-03-18  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-19  0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
     [not found] <823906039.22113@assen.demon.co.uk>
     [not found] ` <emery-0902962215150001@line316.nwm.mindlink.net>
     [not found]   ` <DMoA85.52I@eskimo.com>
     [not found]   ` <823965654.4500@assen.demon.co.uk>
     [not found]     ` <824165619.14894@assen.demon.co.uk>
     [not found]       ` <JSA.96Feb13133713@organon.com>
     [not found]         ` <824259217.26321@assen.demon.co.uk>
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
     [not found]         ` <824332550.2485@assen.demon.co.uk>
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
     [not found] ` <4fgrq3$mc4@qualcomm.com>
     [not found]   ` <dewar.823962356@schonberg>
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
1996-02-19  0:00 ` AdaWorks
1996-02-21  0:00   ` Ken Garlington
1996-02-23  0:00     ` AdaWorks
1996-02-19  0:00 ` R.A.L Williams
1996-02-21  0:00   ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-02-19  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
     [not found] ` <824056183.18993@assen.demon.co.uk>
     [not found]   ` <4fnqpm$3nh@news.sanders.lockheed.com>
1996-02-19  0:00     ` AdaWorks
1996-02-21  0:00       ` Ken Garlington
1996-02-21  0:00       ` Hugh Dunne
     [not found]   ` <4fnp37$nj1@theopolis.orl.mmc.com>
1996-02-22  0:00     ` Alan Brain
1996-02-26  0:00 ` R.A.L Williams
     [not found]   ` <4h3q56$1vk@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
     [not found]     ` <dewar.825635955@schonberg>
     [not found]       ` <826571250.140@assen.demon.co.uk>
     [not found]         ` <dewar.826634800@schonberg>
1996-03-21  0:00           ` John McCabe
     [not found] ` <RALW.96Feb28100925@vulcan.gmrc.gecm.com>
     [not found]   ` <dewar.825775334@schonberg>
     [not found]     ` <RALW.96Mar8113005@vulcan.gecm.com>
1996-03-15  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-03-18  0:00     ` Alan Brain
     [not found]     ` <dirk.827148504@demokrit>
1996-03-18  0:00       ` David Weller
1996-03-16  0:00 ` Kevin Dalley
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