From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: 64-bit integers in Ada
Date: 4 Aug 2002 18:48:34 -0700
Date: 2002-08-05T01:48:34+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0208041748.3feb353f@posting.google.com> (raw)
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Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<PG2KS5+doDWm@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
> 2. This consideration is vastly outweighed by a
> body of more important items that deserve their
> intention.
^^^^^^^^^
Nice typo, I assume you mean attention :-)
Actually, this kind of short range thinking (sorry I am too
busy to learn how to do things right, I have too much to
worry about) is really inappropriate to the Ada world and
the world of serious software engineering. I can't tell you
how many projects have a heck of a time porting legacy code
because programmers have not given attention to the issue of writing
portable code earlier on. Note that portable
code is code that is easily able to be ported. That does
NOT mean having stupid rules like "no use of unchecked
conversion". What it does mean is careful encapsulation
of dependencies, and avoidance of gratuitous non-portabilities (such
as using type Standard.Integer :-)
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2002-05-16 11:27 64-bit integers in Ada David Rasmussen
2002-05-17 2:28 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-17 13:56 ` Mark Johnson
2002-07-29 15:33 ` Victor Giddings
2002-07-29 20:15 ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-30 18:35 ` Richard Riehle
2002-07-30 20:20 ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-31 0:13 ` Robert Dewar
2002-07-31 4:17 ` Keith Thompson
2002-07-31 8:41 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-07-31 13:20 ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-31 13:42 ` Marin David Condic
2002-08-01 7:54 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2002-08-01 13:07 ` Marin David Condic
2002-08-02 7:31 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2002-08-02 13:21 ` Marin David Condic
2002-08-03 12:24 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-03 18:59 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-04 6:12 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-08-04 14:07 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-05 2:28 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-11 15:32 ` Simon Wright
2002-08-13 21:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-04 18:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <5ee5b646.0208040607.ebb6909@posting.googOrganization: LJK Software <PG2KS5+doDWm@eisner.encompasserve.org>
2002-08-05 1:44 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-05 1:48 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2002-08-05 11:40 ` Marc A. Criley
2002-08-05 14:40 ` Pat Rogers
2002-08-05 2:34 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-11 21:56 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-13 21:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-18 1:01 ` AG
2002-08-20 0:15 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-02 8:37 ` Fraser Wilson
2002-08-02 12:54 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-08-01 11:57 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-01 17:53 ` Ben Brosgol
2002-08-01 20:32 ` Keith Thompson
2002-07-31 21:50 ` Keith Thompson
2002-07-31 21:59 ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-30 4:29 ` Robert Dewar
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