Re: ADA arithmetic

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In article <EACHUS.93Jul26135137@spectre.mitre.org>, eachus@spectre.mitre.org (
Robert I. Eachus) writes:
>      Mike, if a teacher is handing out assignments like this, I want
> to know what the class is!  I've now done two portable packages for
> extended arithmetic in Ada, and it is not something taught in any
> undergraduate or graduate curriculum that I am aware of.  If it were,
> the SPARC architecture would show up much better in most benchmarks.
> 
> 					Robert I. Eachus

It's worth 7% of Otago's core 2nd-year programming course (just my luck -
all the possible Comp. Sci. lecturers and I have to get a software
engineer! (sorry Paul, just kidding :-) ). Alas we're only allowed to use
VAXen so performance isn't really a concept we're familiar with.

Were I of an arrogant nature I could postulate some connection between the
rigour of our courses and our success in the ACM Programming Competition,
but that would be immature and contrary to the spirit of the net :-)

Simon Brady                     "I'd join the Movement,
University of Otago              If there was one I could believe in"
Dunedin, New Zealand                  - U2, 'Acrobat'