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- From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe)
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- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 15:55:35 +1100
- Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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- I wrote:
- >Ada does not support Fortran-style formatted I/O, nor PL/I style
- >formatted or pictured I/O (but see Interfaces.COBOL).
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- dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
- >Wrong advice, Ada 95 DOES spport COBOL-style pictures, see the information
- >systems annex. I am not sure what "pictured I/O" is (COBOL certainly does
- >not have it! But both COBOL and Ada 95 provide facilities for the use of
- >pictures to edit alphanumeric data (this data can certainly be output
- >after it is edited :-)
-
- "Wrong advice"? But I never said Ada 95 doesn't support COBOL-style
- pictures! I avoided mention of the Information Systems annex because
- it is one of the "Specialised Needs" annexes, which are optional, but
- annex B isn't (though if I understand correctly the child packages are).
-
- What I wrote was
- Ada does not support ... PL/I style formatted or pictured I/O
- ^^^^
-
- It remains true that Ada 95 does not support PL/I style pictures, neither
- in the core nor in any specialised needs annex, nor does it support PL/I
- *style* I/O. I am actually _happy_ that this is so.
-
- PL/I-style "record" I/O is also not supported by Ada 95.
- It might actually be worth discussing this at some time; what did DEC Ada
- do about RMS?
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- Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.
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