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Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why
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Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> Did you read what I wrote, really?

Sure.

> Should I have included the notes in the Shufflling routine which
 > showed why this particular method of generation permutations was
 > unbiased?  Okay done:

Okay, thanks. Since not all Ada programmers are the author of random
number generators for Ada compilers, you should agree that this is an
issue that can be overlooked, and could produce incorrect results that
would not be caught by Ada language facilities. An impression I often
get from Ada proponents is that the errors that Ada catches are the
(only) ones that matter.

And by the way...
 > type Suits is (...);
 > type Ranks is (...);
 > Deck: Card_Array(0..51);

What's up with that 51? Shouldn't that be a calculation based on the
Suits'Last'Pos and Ranks'Last'Pos?