Re: Ada and Internet stuff

[tmoran@acm.org]

> communications equipment that is oriented towards 8-bit bytes. I doubt that
> there are many actual, validated implementations of Ada95 that *don't* use 8
> Bits for a stream element.
  But Randy Brukardt mentioned the other day an Ada 95 compiler on a
Univac machine with, IIRC, 36 bit words and 9 bit Stream_Element'size

> and not worrying about absolute portability. Most apps are not ported to
> begin with and the minority that are, typically are going to be ported to
> similar machines.
  I would normally agree, but here we are talking about Base64 encoding
for sending data over the internet, and I could certainly imagine wanting
to have my Univac machine able to talk with 8-bit byte machines.
  We are of course talking about mathematician's solutions here, not
engineer's solutions, so reasonableness is not relevant.  ;)