From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada is almost useless in embedded systems
Date: 1996/03/18
Date: 1996-03-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.827166817@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4ijnj7$lrm@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
Peter Herman said
"Ada200x possibly going up to 36 could be useful for encoding
numerical material into non-critical (i.e. no control chars)
ascii-sequences while saving space, formed by a-z+0-9"
I don't believe this justification for a moment. Peter, please write
some real code using this wonderful new feature, and I will bet you
that it can be done much better in some other manner.
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1996-03-15 0:00 ` Ada is almost useless in embedded systems Norman H. Cohen
1996-03-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-18 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-03-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-03-18 0:00 ` Stephen Crawley
1996-03-19 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
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[not found] ` <JSA.96Feb13133713@organon.com>
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1996-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-18 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-19 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-02-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
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1996-02-17 0:00 ` Ken & Virginia Garlington
1996-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-18 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-19 0:00 ` John McCabe
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[not found] ` <dewar.823962356@schonberg>
1996-02-17 0:00 ` Tore Joergensen
1996-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-19 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-02-19 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-02-19 0:00 ` AdaWorks
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-02-23 0:00 ` AdaWorks
1996-02-19 0:00 ` R.A.L Williams
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-02-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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1996-02-19 0:00 ` AdaWorks
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Hugh Dunne
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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1996-02-22 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-02-26 0:00 ` R.A.L Williams
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[not found] ` <dewar.826634800@schonberg>
1996-03-21 0:00 ` John McCabe
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1996-03-15 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-03-18 0:00 ` Alan Brain
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1996-03-18 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-03-16 0:00 ` Kevin Dalley
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