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From: macrakis@harvard.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Who Wants Ada?
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Date: Sat, 15-Jun-85 19:23:13 EDT
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It is certainly true that many current Ada compilers do not implement
useful Chapter 13 features, but since the most basic one,
unchecked_conversion, is so simple to implement (you just turn off
type checking!), I believe most compilers have it.  This is the main
thing you need to do C-like low-level pointer manipulations.