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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Confusing language,
 was Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing
Date: 1999/11/11
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:

> Well in many environments COMP-3 is forbidden because it is
> implementation dependent. In any case if you allow COMP-3, then
> you can fit a 2 digit year into a single byte. Remember that
> core memory cost approximately 100,000 times as much in the
> early days of COBOL programming as it does now!

Really?  How much does core memory cost now?  I didn't think you could
buy it anymore.  ;-)

OTOH, nobody has taught Unix to say "segmentation fault -- dram
dumped".  ;-)

>...So how
> eager would you be to free free to spend an extra 100K bytes
> for each date you stored (you need to do that comparison to
> get a feel for the cost impact).

Good point.

- Bob