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In <jv3m5r$k2k$1@dont-email.me>, on 07/29/2012
   at 05:51 PM, "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> said:

>Which implies that you can work only with predefined types.

Nonsense.

>One of the great benefits of Ada (for floating point types)

Over C and FORTRAN; not over PL/I.

>is the ability to chose accurracy and range,

I don't know of any Ada compiler that can extend the FP range of the
underlying hardware. As for accuracy, PL/I was there before the
original DOD/1 project began.

>and let the compiler find the appropriate underlying hardware 
>type.

A concept picked up from PL/I.

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