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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.lang
Subject: Re: Who Wants Ada?
Message-ID: <511@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 16:10:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.511
Posted: Mon Jun 17 16:10:36 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Jun-85 03:11:33 EDT
References: <1649@reed.UUCP> <186@harvard.ARPA> <453@calmasd.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Summary: 

In article <453@calmasd.UUCP> rjh@calmasd.UUCP (Bob Hofkin) writes:
>In article <186@harvard.ARPA> macrakis@harvard.ARPA writes:
>>  Look up unchecked_conversion and the
>>rest of chapter 13 in Ada.  You can straightforwardly do random pointer
>>operations etc. in Ada when you need to.
>
>Look up Chapter 13 features in valid, production-quality Ada
>compilers.  Compiler writers claim Chapter 13 is "optional" because
>the ACVC doesn't test that stuff.  Folks at AVO seem to agree.  [Had
>to get that in!]
>
	Oh, GREAT! I finally find out Ada has a really useful,
flexible feature, that would make it useful for my kind of work,
and I am told it is *optional*. I certainly *hope* *some* compilers
use chapter 13, since I would hate to use an Ada without those
features.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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