From: <adaworks@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: What about big integers in Ada 2005?
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:50:00 GMT
Date: 2005-10-04T13:50:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 05:24:17 GMT, adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>
> I cannot imagine any
> use of BCD except than to speed up conversions to ASCII, which is not an
> issue in these days. > [decimal fixed point numbers is a different issue]
>
I replying to this part of your message separately.
BCD, and its cousins, including packed decimal, are used widely in the
business data processing world. Files are stored in these formats. At
present, it is rather a nuisance to try to use Ada for reading these files.
Not impossible, but not convenient either.
Richard Riehle
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-15 17:06 What about big integers in Ada 2005? jtg
2005-09-15 17:26 ` Pascal Obry
2005-09-15 17:30 ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-15 17:26 ` Martin Krischik
2005-09-15 19:37 ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-15 21:08 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-09-15 20:33 ` jtg
2005-09-15 21:10 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-09-18 0:46 ` adaworks
2005-09-30 17:41 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-30 20:18 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-02 0:27 ` adaworks
[not found] ` <imsuj1h8vevg4un71rmh0nc41pnee5ihjl@4ax.com>
2005-10-02 10:33 ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-02 16:20 ` adaworks
2005-10-04 5:24 ` adaworks
2005-10-04 7:22 ` tmoran
2005-10-04 8:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-10-04 11:57 ` Simon Clubley
2005-10-04 16:10 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 17:24 ` Simon Clubley
2005-10-04 19:44 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 13:46 ` adaworks
2005-10-04 16:38 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 16:52 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-04 17:16 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 13:50 ` adaworks [this message]
2005-10-04 14:59 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-04 16:03 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 18:56 ` adaworks
2005-10-10 5:36 ` Dave Thompson
2005-10-14 0:31 ` adaworks
2005-10-06 14:21 ` Adrian Hoe
2005-10-07 6:48 ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-02 0:48 ` Brian May
2005-10-02 10:28 ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-02 10:52 ` Brian May
2005-10-02 15:12 ` Simon Wright
2005-10-02 17:11 ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-16 14:33 ` gautier_niouzes
2005-09-17 3:43 ` Craig Carey <research@ijs.co.nz>
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