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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 06:38:34 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
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- References: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4h5hgj$vpd@tomquartz.niestu.com> <4h7jskINNnph@anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <dewar.826146475@schonberg>
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- In article <dewar.826146475@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- >I guess that means "rarely used in the academic programs that I am fiddling
- >with". In real life of course, they are a vital, and widely used part of the
- >language.
-
- I have to admit, I've only seen them used in NetHack. No other code I've
- ever read used bitfields. :)
-
- They'd probably show up a lot more with industrial or embedded systems.
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