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,d2cba5965c7bfcd5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-05 15:55:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!chnws02.ne.ipsvc.net!cyclone.ne.ipsvc.net!24.128.8.70!typhoon.ne.ipsvc.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey Creem" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3C823A1A.6030006@users.sf.net> <0CFB5EECF8614F8D.52C8F36A468D2F14.3AD3D533D2B72FDB@lp.airnews.net> <01D3EF1F744692CE.E4285A1E194C94B7.800ACE8F1D3EC3C7@lp.airnews.net> Subject: Re: 64bit access to an array of 8bit values X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 23:52:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.31.5.146 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mediaone.net X-Trace: typhoon.ne.ipsvc.net 1015372344 66.31.5.146 (Tue, 05 Mar 2002 18:52:24 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 18:52:24 EST Organization: ATT Broadband Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20833 Date: 2002-03-05T23:52:24+00:00 List-Id: > What this taught me is that solutions that work "most of the time" DON'T > work ALL of the time, and the right answer is never be satisfied with > something that doesn't work ALL of the time. Correctness is a binary > property. I don't entirely disagree but when face with an answer like "Sorry you can't do that [in Ada]" a person asking such a question will go off and say well I better do that in C then when in reality all of the problems you bring up would exist there as well....Your answer was not "No do it this way instead" but rather "You can't do that". I suspect following that advice I could convince myself that I can not write any software so perhaps I should be a gardener. (After all, Hello World will not work on an embedded machine with no display so it is clearly not possible to write Hello World in Ada)