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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4ac8a7e7d3e637dc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-22 12:25:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!skynet.be!skynet.be!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: sk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is there a better (Ada) way? Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:33:32 -0500 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <20619edc.0310221056.4c92d10c@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1066850673 9218 80.67.180.195 (22 Oct 2003 19:24:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:24:33 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020828 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p5 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1459 Date: 2003-10-22T14:33:32-05:00 Mike Silva : > ... sure I'm not writing "C in Ada" ... I was playing with an assembler written in Ada a while ago. I also played with a small kernel. After trying many awkward Ada ways, I came to the conclusion that sometimes the "C" (masking, shifting etc) way was a lot cleaner to look at, read and maintain than hammering it into an "Ada way" of doing it. So maybe, at the bit-twiddling level, C-in-Ada might not be a bad way to go. -- ------------------------------------------------- -- Merge vertically for real address -- -- s n p @ t . o -- k i e k c c m -------------------------------------------------