From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fa637,d369d5fc03ef3fab,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfa637,public X-Google-Thread: 114bcd,d369d5fc03ef3fab,start X-Google-Attributes: gid114bcd,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,fae85d3a03b5f78c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fbf1a,d369d5fc03ef3fab,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfbf1a,public From: the one and only real true kibo Subject: Re: Fixed-point Date: 1997/03/29 Message-ID: <5hjijg$2hq@stronghold.dhp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 229278613 References: <333C08A7.446B9B3D@innocon.com> Organization: DataHaven Project +1 412 421 4516 (DHP.COM) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,alt.religion.kibology,alt.flame,alt.cascade Date: 1997-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 28 Mar 1997 16:24:34 -0500 in article posted to comp.lang.ada, Robert Dewar wrote: > Jeff Carter asks > < Programming* has been discussing implementing multiple precision > integers and fixed-point types in C++ for some time. I was wondering > when he'd address why you'd go to the effort, rather than use a language > with fixed-point type support. In the 1997 Apr issue, he does: > "The designers of Ada ... tried to get too fancy. Instead of restricting > the type to words commensurate with the natural word length of the > computer, they gave us a more general definition that allows for words > of any bit length and any resolution. ... [T]he end result was the same: > fixed-point operations are so slow in Ada that few people bother to use > the type, and many Ada shops prohibit their use as a matter programming > style." > Has anyone encountered this phenomenon?>> > Robet replies > I doubt anyone has "encountered this phenomenon" since the quotation > is complete nonsense, and shows that the author knows nothing about > fixed-point in Ada. There are some problems with fixed-point, especially > in Ada 83, but they are essenti9ally fixed in Ada 95. For a detailed > discussion of these problems, see my repot on fixed-point, this was > one of the SEI reports done for the Ada 9X development effort. Fuckhead. I am the only true Kibo. Finger me for my PGP public key. Check out my home page for the coolest way to vote on new newsgroup proposals or to issue Usenet cancels. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMz1NsKlPvImbzLKZAQHSEQP/WVx1dIqhZJgCd4cIM5NOFelJzJdS+B99 VdiaC2wE8mZPo/YRZMpNt29r7/goIcKrGG8HowmgsvQsPiQBLVD0JnxXBpjYBxtX VKpyoT0x6RJVV+RMRfz1mrz0pl7D8WekVRJce2uEt0gtisP1Ai5HA0mCoZYLAytL cRjXscwDRVk= =vgk4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----