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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address? Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:22:15 -0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <67063a5b-f588-45ea-bf22-ca4ba0196ee6@l11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <9a8f406d-05ca-4bf3-8487-918d4e0dd634@o18g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <4d52ee47$0$18057$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4d5306a0$0$18057$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <76c123ab-7425-44d8-b26d-b2b41a9aa42b@o7g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <4d5310ab$0$18057$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <9bff52ca-6213-41da-8fa4-3a4cdd8086d3@y36g2000pra.googlegroups.com> <4d5315c8$0$18057$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <159dca70-2103-46d7-beb2-c7754d30fe36@k15g2000prk.googlegroups.com> <4d53222d$0$18057$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4d540714$0$27423$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4d5423b9$0$27423$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <867afa64-090f-48bf-93a3-54ec23b51381@f18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: tUYQ4Ty9mMw9Pdc8TJRFQA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17235 Date: 2011-02-11T02:22:15-08:00 List-Id: On 2/11/2011 12:26 AM, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > >> Right. You are inordinately proud of Ada's ability to capture >> numeric ranges in its type system. > > I'm not proud of Ada's numeric ranges; I am proud to have chosen the > proper tool for the job, and every time Ada's numeric ranges has saved > my skin in the past has reinforced my confidence in it. You don't seem > to even grasp how useful these numeric ranges are; they are so useful > that, after my years of experience using 20+ languages, I would refuse > to consider using a language that doesn't have them. > Which should make one more puzzled as to why then Ada isn't used much at all in numerical computations, financial applications, and such places, where such features can be more appreciated. As a matter of fact, it seems these days, that the less strongly typed a language is, the more it becomes popular and used more for numerical work. We must be living in strange times ;) --Nasser