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-Thread: 103376,245c84afd1e393ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsmst01b.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr21.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!4988f22a!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1581461.uQ1jN63t33@linux1.krischik.com> <5mo0f.529$B14.97@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com> <1x4pe4pv41qsn$.m5c5jawjqcpq.dlg@40tude.net> Subject: Re: What about big integers in Ada 2005? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.164.117.94 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr21.news.prodigy.com 1128433800 ST000 64.164.117.94 (Tue, 04 Oct 2005 09:50:00 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 09:50:00 EDT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: FKPO@MONTBWQR]TX\ZIBNFXBWR\HPCTL@XT^OBPLAH[\RYIBK^RAQFW[ML\THRCKV^GGZKJMGV^^_JSCFFUA_QXFGVSCYRPILH]TRVKC^LSN@DX_HCAFX__@J\DAJBVMY\ZWZCZLPA^MVH_P@\\EOMW\YSXHG__IJQY_@M[A[[AXQ_XDSTAR]\PG]NVAQUVM Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:50:00 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5374 Date: 2005-10-04T13:50:00+00:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote in message news:1x4pe4pv41qsn$.m5c5jawjqcpq.dlg@40tude.net... > 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