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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/07/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 163344165 sender: djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu references: <4q8fbo$701@red.interact.net.au> organization: UCSD Computer Science and Engineering Department newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1996-07-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > Ok, then here's a challenge. Point me at any compress/decompress > package (a la Zip) written in Ada. I've been searching the world and > come up empty. Even here in the comp.lang.ada group I was referred to C > language implementations. This just means you can't find an existing one, not that it's impossible. Have you tried writing it yourself? If you have problems with it in Ada, I bet you also have problems with it in standard C (ie, you can't tell how many bits are in a byte, or other binary format details). -- Darin Johnson djohnson@ucsd.edu O- - I'm not a well adjusted person, but I play one on the net.