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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: CRC in Ada?
Date: 1997/03/24
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References: <1997Mar2.220652@nova.wright.edu> <dewar.858769863@merv>
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Date: 1997-03-24T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.859141238@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>The Sequential_IO, Text_IO and Direct_IO packages of Ada are at a significantly
>higher semantic level. ...

I won't comment on Sequential_IO and Direct_IO, but surely Text_IO is
intended to produce a format that makes sense to non-Ada programs.  That
is, if I write a file using Text_IO, and I don't do anything funny with
control characters, then I ought to be able to read that file into my
favorite text editor (say, Emacs), and have it make sense.  If the Ada
system is putting weird stuff in the file, which makes this impossible,
then that's a bug, IMHO.  (IMHO, the term "bug" refers to any
wrong/undesirable behavior, whether or not it violates the Ada standard.
That is, the set of possible bugs in an Ada compiler is a superset of
the set of possible vilations of the RM.)

- Bob