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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died)
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 16:33:10 +0200
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softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) wrote:

>Do you really need your own sub-range of integers
>very often?

Yes.

>  Arrays with variable index ranges?

This comes handy quite often. But more important is the type safety
that comes with them.

>You must do a very different type of programming
>from what I do.

Well, I do some embedded stuff and application software. It always
seems to be a lack of imagination when someone claims, he'd never need
it.

Well, I don't *need* it either, I am mentally able to address arrays
with zero-based indices, too, even if this does not look very
naturally, but to do it can make the life a whole lot easier.


Vinzent.

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