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From: ohk@fandango2-ether.tfdt-o.nta.no (Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB)
Subject: Re: CRC in Ada?
Date: 1997/03/12
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In article <dewar.858096166@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

   Graham says

   <<Perhaps.  But the beauty of the C and other approaches is that I don't
   have to write the buffer explicitly, and thus have to debug it.  I *can*
   read character by character if I want to, and often I do; socket
   programming is a perfect example.  But the rest of the time, I don't
   want to worry about it, and don't have to.>>

   Sure you can read character by character, but you are paying a considerable
   price, even in C, for doing so!

If you actually want to do something with your char instead of just
reading it, it is usually negligible.