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- From: ian@rsd.bel.alcatel.be (Ian Ward)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 16:11:05 GMT
- Organization: Alcatel Bell Telephone
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- Peter Seebach writes:
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- > They'd probably show up a lot more with industrial or embedded systems.
-
- Good guess! In the kit I work on at the moment,
- I guess that at lot less than one percent of the Ada part
- of the software is rep. clauses. Without them, I wouldn't
- be stuffed, I'm sure I could cope, but I haven't worked
- on a project in the last five years, where I haven't used
- them just a little bit. It is so relaxing to be able to just
- say.
-
- SEND (Data => COMPESSED_DATA_TYPE (uncompressed_data));
-
- or
-
- Cunningly_defined_variant_record :=
- UNCHECKED_CONVERSION (READ_BYTE_ARRAY_FROM_MAILBOX);
-
-
-
- Best regards,
- ---
- Ian Ward's opinions only : ian@rsd.bel.alcatel.be
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