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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bffcdbd805329ff8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-31 10:37:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and Internet stuff References: <9mo4gg$2ib$1@nh.pace.co.uk> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:37:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 999279476 24.7.82.199 (Fri, 31 Aug 2001 10:37:56 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 10:37:56 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12612 Date: 2001-08-31T17:37:56+00:00 List-Id: > 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. ;)