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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Interfacing to C and long long data type
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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:11:15 +0200
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:59:01 -0700 (PDT), Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> On 26 Cze, 10:53, S�bastien Morand <seb.mor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Anyway when you interface Ada with C, you are loosing the portability of
>> your program
> 
> If I need some functionality, then non-portable program that has this
> functionality is infinitely better than a portable program that does
> not.

Why infinitely? Having any functionality X can have only a finite value.
Similarly the value of having no X is also finite. [Assuming some additive
model of values.]

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