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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: 64-bit integers in Ada
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 02:12:41 -0400
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"Richard Riehle" <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message
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> with him on this assessment,  forcing the language to correspond
> to a single word-size architecture (read 32 bits) would be
> play into his flawed view of Ada's value for new software.

I don't think Dr. Dewar is arguing for forcing the language to correspond to
a single word-size architecture.

-CRM