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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada is almost useless in embedded systems
Date: 1996/03/18
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Date: 1996-03-18T00:00:00+00:00
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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.