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: 103376,9ae3749ddf1e6022 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Bob Crispen Subject: Re: Endian and Ada Date: 1996/04/18 Message-ID: <9604181215.AA05581@eight-ball>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 148174782 sender: Ada programming language comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-04-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: phil@SEVERN.DEMON.CO.UK wrote a splendid 17-point post explaining why bit-order is one way for one CPU and another way for another, with some suggestions to the CPU makers. He forgot but one point: in Ada, we set the bit order to match the machine so that the code can match the manual. We simply remember the times we sat there late at night with the sample driver code in one hand and the manual in the other and got so mad at the inconsiderate &%$#*&^s who wrote them that we threw the both at the wall on the other side of the cube and left for the night, muttering "Catch me buying a board again from *them*!" ----- Someone flogging a commercial product on an inappropriate newsgroup asked: >Is anyone interested in an excellent memory source? What was that again? Bob Crispen revbob@eight-ball.hv.boeing.com Speaking for myself, not my company