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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice
Date: 1997/06/20
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Date: 1997-06-20T00:00:00+00:00
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Dale says

<<We shouldn't of course forget the option of using underscores in numeric
literals, which to my continual amazement, no other language that i know of
has!
E.g.
 
    Mem_Map: Integer;
    for Mem_Map'Address use 16#B010_0040#;
  begin
    Mem_Map := 16#0034_4556#;"
 
 
This is such a simple feature, yet it improves readability no end.
 >>


Sorry Dale, your suggestion is totally unacceptable, it increases the length
of the program by two characters.


And oh yes, since sarcasm on this group seems to get easily misread, here is a


         :-)