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On Monday, January 4, 2021 at 4:06:03 PM UTC-5, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Matt Borchers <mattbo...@gmail.com> writes: 
> > As I said, I turned a bunch of ugly C into a few lines of pretty Ada 
> > for a skeptic.
> You could write the C code similarly to the Ada, using a union. I don't 
> know why the C program isn't written that way. Maybe it is very old.

That is a good point Paul.  At least Ada can "keep up" and do the low-level things that some C users claims to be best choice and thus the only good choice.