Re: Ada is almost useless in embedded systems

[ucaa2385@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann)]

Norman H. Cohen (ncohen@watson.ibm.com) wrote:
: 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?

it's nice to have this, e.g. for education or various math situations,
practical "exact" input of numbers with properties of a certain base, etc.
(e.g. input of 1/3 , 1/7, etc.)

Ada200x possibly going up to 36 could be useful for encoding 
numerical material into non-critical (i.e. no control chars)
ascii-sequences while saving space, formed by a-z+0-9

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