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,c9d5fc258548b22a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!216.196.110.149.MISMATCH!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.mixmin.net!news.tornevall.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address? Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:26:18 -0700 Organization: TornevallNET - http://news.tornevall.net Message-ID: References: <67063a5b-f588-45ea-bf22-ca4ba0196ee6@l11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <05a3673e-fb97-449c-94ed-1139eb085c32@x1g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <8r86vgFc3uU1@mid.individual.net> <19fh1chm74f9.11cws0j5bckze.dlg@40tude.net> <4d4ff70e$0$6886$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> <737a6396-72bd-4a1e-8895-7d50f287960e@d28g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> <4d5008a5$0$6879$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> <4d5031fe$0$6765$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> <1f229967-d3cf-42b6-8087-c97ee08652f3@i40g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <4d51169e$0$7657$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <1bnp0pw1c8r5b$.guxc48qweiwe.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: b09df8e94bc706735be97b21a21dde6b Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fcd542bf141e4f2e277198c0df28051a X-Complaints-To: abuse@tornevall.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Thunderbird/3.1.7 X-Complaints-Language: Spoken language is english or swedish - NOT ITALIAN, FRENCH, GERMAN OR ANY OTHER LANGUAGE! In-Reply-To: <1bnp0pw1c8r5b$.guxc48qweiwe.dlg@40tude.net> X-UserIDNumber: 1738 X-Validate-Post: http://news.tornevall.net/validate.php?trace=fcd542bf141e4f2e277198c0df28051a X-Complaints-Italiano: Non abbiamo padronanza della lingua italiana - se mandate una email scrivete solo in Inglese, grazie X-Posting-User: 0243687135df8c4b260dd4a9a93c79bd Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:18016 Date: 2011-02-08T14:26:18-07:00 List-Id: On 02/08/2011 12:43 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > > Three candidates in a row I have interviewed for a C/C++/C# position could > not answer the question how to test the 3rd bit of a byte in C. All three > had 3+ years of programming "experience." Sure, there are lots of coders, and many of them aren't even good coders. Yet they are considered, and encouraged to consider themselves, qualified to design software and choose the language to implement software (even though they often only know a single language). The construction workers are designing the bridges and choosing the materials to build them with. The advantage of Ada is that it is not a coder's language. Those who dislike it have identified themselves as coders, and can be dealt with appropriately. -- Jeff Carter "Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!" Dr. Strangelove 33