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: 103376,677963b1aa23e668 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!216.196.110.149.MISMATCH!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial project? Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:25:24 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <7d308b7b-51d7-4c93-85c8-eecb40f843d0@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <88bf5879-c58e-4ae1-ad9e-e2b6a48729fe@34g2000pru.googlegroups.com> <80b0754d-b6f2-4861-988e-f76c51f20ed9@t19g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <4d7e4dbd$0$6778$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:25:24 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="cJo7kSTQUrCFv2/D8KKtqw"; logging-data="23431"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18uDb67EILPh6fG8zHuYA8J" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:DTrXkl/6vYszAiJl2We9iNUVSeE= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:19196 Date: 2011-03-15T21:25:24+01:00 List-Id: Le 15/03/2011 13:11, Simon Clubley a �crit : > It does surprise me therefore how little I see fixed point calculations > been used in other environments. > Quite true. Most people think "floating point" as soon as they see a point in a number (with the exception of Cobol people ;-) ). Of course, if Java had fixed points... -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Adalog a d�m�nag� / Adalog has moved: 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00