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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Why should hackers love Ada. (Re: Ada 95 based RTOS)
Date: 2000/02/26
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> > Gary wrote:
> >> I see this reference to ADA being good at bit twiddling,
periodically.
> >> Virtually all high-level languages provide facilities for
bit twiddling.

Sure, but the facilities in Ada are far more powerful, allow
more control, and most importantly, provide a much better level
of abstraction. For example, packed bit arrays are a powerful
feature missing from C. Sure you can program this yourself in
C, but it is messy, error prone, and results in ugly and
possibly inefficient code.


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