TOPIC | 795.0 | C vs. Ada |
| 795.15 | Mon Jan 04 1988 21:52 | Neither C nor Ada well suited for Bliss replacement | 109 lines |
TOPIC | 875.0 | Count of source lines ? |
| 875.8 | Mon Mar 07 1988 18:01 | Anyone have a software complexity metric? | 34 lines |
TOPIC | 890.0 | STORAGE_ERROR in block elaboration |
| 890.5 | Thu Mar 17 1988 14:46 | Doesn't seem grey to me | 18 lines |
| 890.13 | Mon Mar 21 1988 18:35 | Why stretch LRM when there is no benefit? | 28 lines |
| 890.15 | Tue Mar 22 1988 11:59 | Yup, I was wrong, it's grey | 78 lines |
| 890.17 | Tue Mar 22 1988 17:31 | definition of "local" surprised me | 19 lines |
TOPIC | 914.0 | Tue Apr 05 1988 23:50 | LRM 6, hacker 1 | 144 lines |
TOPIC | 919.0 | Does VAX Ada Comply? |
| 919.4 | Tue Apr 12 1988 16:33 | possible gotcha | 10 lines |
TOPIC | 948.0 | Ada 1.5 10000 blocks larger??? |
| 948.3 | Tue May 03 1988 00:09 | Is 10,000 really exact? | 2 lines |
TOPIC | 1028.0 | Constraint error in string accessing |
| 1028.4 | Sun Jun 26 1988 01:29 | Off at a tangent | 14 lines |
TOPIC | 1036.0 | Tue Jun 28 1988 15:51 | Well Known Compiler Optimization Technology | 23 lines |
| 1036.3 | Fri Jul 01 1988 19:19 | undefined question yields undefined answer | 76 lines |
TOPIC | 1072.0 | 'ADDRESS on subprogram in nested package |
| 1072.4 | Wed Aug 17 1988 19:26 | Is suggestion well understood? | 28 lines |
TOPIC | 1078.0 | Tue Aug 02 1988 15:56 | LONG_FLOAT_TEXT_IO dislikes PRAGMA LONG_FLOAT (D_FLOAT) | 19 lines |
| 1078.1 | Tue Aug 02 1988 16:06 | Easily but maybe not obviously fixed | 4 lines |
TOPIC | 1087.0 | Tue Aug 09 1988 14:55 | incomplete elaboration with exported procedures | 40 lines |
TOPIC | 1106.0 | Tue Aug 30 1988 23:41 | Arithmetic Optimization: Is there any? | 22 lines |
| 1106.3 | Tue Sep 13 1988 15:25 | Speaking of sign extension | 14 lines |
TOPIC | 1159.0 | Sat Oct 08 1988 21:58 | Looking for an obscure note in this conference | 16 lines |
| 1159.2 | Sun Oct 09 1988 17:26 | Couldn't find it there either | 9 lines |
| 1159.4 | Mon Oct 10 1988 21:04 | Not only imprecise but obsolete | 3 lines |
TOPIC | 1172.0 | 64-bit fixed point numbers? |
| 1172.2 | Fri Oct 21 1988 16:19 | Use similar algorithms on development and target machines | 19 lines |
TOPIC | 1200.0 | Mon Nov 14 1988 02:17 | Visibility Query | 92 lines |
| 1200.1 | Tue Nov 22 1988 15:03 | More like Visibility Compiler Bug | 31 lines |
| 1200.2 | Tue Nov 29 1988 11:59 | Should I QAR this? | 27 lines |
TOPIC | 1202.0 | Tue Nov 15 1988 13:30 | ACS COMPILE/WAIT: needs a bigger or more accurate hammer | 39 lines |
| 1202.2 | Tue Nov 29 1988 11:50 | Thanks | 10 lines |
TOPIC | 1212.0 | Excess baggage, due to abused "with" -- bad mojo, gang |
| 1212.1 | Mon Nov 21 1988 13:53 | May be a feature, not a bug | 13 lines |
| 1212.5 | Tue Nov 22 1988 19:24 | But you can't get there from here | 21 lines |
TOPIC | 1216.0 | Excessive overloading breaks operator resolution? |
| 1216.1 | Tue Nov 29 1988 11:37 | Your write-around is the recommended Ada solution | 83 lines |
TOPIC | 1228.0 | ?Ada Case Conventions? |
| 1228.2 | Thu Dec 15 1988 11:33 | "three cases" a local artifact | 55 lines |
TOPIC | 1230.0 | Mon Dec 12 1988 12:33 | Redundant PRAGMA warning: an excess of zeal? | 41 lines |
TOPIC | 1239.0 | help on reading from a string |
| 1239.5 | Wed Dec 21 1988 18:07 | Try SEQUENTIAL_MIXED_IO | 28 lines |
| 1239.8 | Tue Dec 27 1988 02:00 | Please separate religion from practical advice | 25 lines |
| 1239.11 | Tue Jan 03 1989 14:46 | | 80 lines |
TOPIC | 1254.0 | Visibility Rules ??? |
| 1254.2 | Mon Jan 23 1989 16:14 | Examples not hard to come by | 26 lines |
| 1254.3 | Tue Jan 24 1989 01:09 | Why this gives me heartburn | 61 lines |
TOPIC | 1277.0 | No line numbers on SHOW CALLS |
| 1277.2 | Wed Feb 08 1989 00:56 | But what about the line numbers? | 33 lines |
TOPIC | 1329.0 | How to accept type UNIVERSAL_INTEGER |
| 1329.1 | Tue Mar 14 1989 17:25 | Seems to be a problem I have seen before | 28 lines |
TOPIC | 1333.0 | Wish: Have the compiler determine a smaller STORAGE_SIZE for simple tasks |
| 1333.3 | Tue Mar 21 1989 21:03 | But that is what compilers are for... | 11 lines |
TOPIC | 1358.0 | assign to generic private type? |
| 1358.3 | Fri Apr 14 1989 20:06 | Possible workarounds | 44 lines |
| 1358.6 | Mon Apr 17 1989 23:18 | Persuade the customer that hidden is not better | 26 lines |
| 1358.7 | Fri Apr 21 1989 22:16 | re .3, a retraction | 27 lines |
TOPIC | 1360.0 | Instantiate generic with private type? |
| 1360.1 | Mon Apr 17 1989 23:34 | Instantiate after elaboration of spec | 47 lines |
TOPIC | 1361.0 | Install Ada on non-system disk? |
| 1361.2 | Mon Apr 17 1989 23:38 | anywhere but a bound volume set | 4 lines |
TOPIC | 1364.0 | Nested generics question |
| 1364.3 | Fri May 12 1989 15:46 | Why do you think the problem is with the generics? | 20 lines |
TOPIC | 1381.0 | Ada exceptions and VAX "exceptions" |
| 1381.5 | Wed May 31 1989 17:12 | re 1381.4: the LRM says so, but... | 23 lines |
TOPIC | 1403.0 | ? Dbg SHO SYM/TYP and non-unique type names |
| 1403.3 | Tue Jun 06 1989 14:35 | EXAM/SOURCE doesn't help with USE | 8 lines |
TOPIC | 1405.0 | Alertness test |
| 1405.16 | Fri Jun 16 1989 00:20 | Illegal index values? | 32 lines |
TOPIC | 1432.0 | Optimize produces different result |
| 1432.3 | Sat Jul 01 1989 01:44 | re .2: optimizer goes too far | 20 lines |
TOPIC | 1435.0 | URGENT : concern about ADA performances |
| 1435.5 | Fri Jun 30 1989 17:58 | Hypothetical question/suggestion | 101 lines |
TOPIC | 1441.0 | Callbacks in Ada & C Environment |
| 1441.10 | Thu Jul 06 1989 23:36 | Think of C routines as BLISS programs | 22 lines |
TOPIC | 1495.0 | Wed Aug 09 1989 14:08 | Doing what MMS does | 41 lines |
| 1495.3 | Sat Aug 26 1989 14:56 | completions big headache for automata | 53 lines |
TOPIC | 1519.0 | Looking at packages from the bottom up ? |
| 1519.3 | Sun Sep 10 1989 00:41 | ACS doesn't but SCA almost does | 15 lines |
TOPIC | 1540.0 | ACS RECOMPILE generates misleading message! |
| 1540.2 | Thu Sep 21 1989 17:43 | Um, there is sort of a related problem... | 45 lines |
TOPIC | 1574.0 | Thu Oct 19 1989 02:36 | Too many list files, misleading error messages | 51 lines |
| 1574.2 | Thu Oct 19 1989 17:59 | re .1: nope | 55 lines |
| 1574.4 | Sat Oct 21 1989 00:59 | so I can't delete any of them, eh? | 20 lines |
TOPIC | 1584.0 | Sun Oct 29 1989 13:57 | UNCHECKED_DEALLOCATION doesn't return memory to system | 41 lines |
| 1584.1 | Tue Oct 31 1989 11:01 | ...and maybe not even to the same collection | 35 lines |
| 1584.3 | Thu Nov 09 1989 21:37 | the solution (sigh) | 24 lines |
TOPIC | 1612.0 | Suggestions for configuration? |
| 1612.5 | Fri Dec 01 1989 18:03 | Sometimes you need MMS for mixed language implementations | 47 lines |
TOPIC | 1642.0 | Type DURATION |
| 1642.1 | Fri Dec 08 1989 13:40 | LONG_DURATION | 51 lines |
TOPIC | 1898.0 | How often to /reorganize |
| 1898.4 | Wed Sep 05 1990 19:35 | If you must have such large directories... | 23 lines |
TOPIC | 1907.0 | tasks not releasing virtual memory ?? |
| 1907.2 | Wed Sep 05 1990 17:24 | Reuse the tasks | 15 lines |
TOPIC | 1977.0 | How can I avoid type casts? |
| 1977.1 | Tue Dec 11 1990 13:21 | Don't use INTEGER | 53 lines |
TOPIC | 2047.0 | Ada Configuration |
| 2047.6 | Mon Mar 18 1991 16:54 | Comments on cob
Comments on configurations | 85 lines |
| 2047.8 | Tue Mar 19 1991 12:51 | guidelines artificially simplified | 35 lines |
TOPIC | 2048.0 | Implementing Secure Software Using Ada |
| 2048.2 | Fri Mar 15 1991 21:52 | Don't go overboard, others have | 32 lines |
TOPIC | 2059.0 | Okay, I give up. |
| 2059.1 | Fri Mar 22 1991 16:00 | Try a USE clause for SQL_STANDARD | 4 lines |
TOPIC | 2086.0 | Thu Apr 25 1991 02:17 | DEC Ada: need to know that limited record passed in out will not copy | 46 lines |
| 2086.3 | Thu Apr 25 1991 16:54 | when copying is just not acceptable | 100 lines |
| 2086.5 | Fri Apr 26 1991 15:46 | Don't need tasking to fail | 44 lines |
| 2086.6 | Fri May 03 1991 15:32 | Could documentation say what .1 says? | 2 lines |
TOPIC | 2089.0 | Can't convert unsigned_Bytes to Characters |
| 2089.1 | Fri Apr 26 1991 01:18 | the nature of the malfunction is not made clear | 23 lines |
TOPIC | 2107.0 | Sat May 11 1991 00:02 | USE_ERROR setting TTY line length | 23 lines |
| 2107.2 | Tue May 14 1991 00:33 | The RTL must not actually compare against terminal width | 23 lines |
| 2107.4 | Tue May 14 1991 16:45 | That's very interesting! | 64 lines |
TOPIC | 2129.0 | Ada job market. |
| 2129.31 | Wed Jun 12 1991 13:30 | Speaking of programming hacks, Ada is the BEST! | 69 lines |
TOPIC | 2169.0 | Information Hiding? |
| 2169.1 | Sun Jul 28 1991 23:32 | What is "clean"? | 21 lines |
TOPIC | 2186.0 | Is ADA Case Sensitive ever? |
| 2186.12 | Wed Sep 18 1991 21:41 | Is Ada *ever* case-sensitive? | 52 lines |
| 2186.14 | Thu Sep 19 1991 16:38 | Maybe we are violently agreeing? | 18 lines |
TOPIC | 2237.0 | Quadword division from Ada? |
| 2237.6 | Thu Oct 31 1991 01:13 | Ugh. Had to solve this myself | 42 lines |
TOPIC | 2250.0 | No help after installation? |
| 2250.1 | Thu Nov 14 1991 01:48 | Help files not in ADA kit | 6 lines |
TOPIC | 2299.0 | 'ADDRESS on procedure in generic |
| 2299.6 | Sat Dec 21 1991 00:07 | A speculation | 21 lines |
TOPIC | 43.0 | Science Fiction Music |
| 43.107 | Mon Apr 23 1990 02:29 | re: 43.106, Off Centaur | 4 lines |
TOPIC | 224.0 | Possibilities IV: Drives |
| 224.26 | Sat Aug 18 1990 18:57 | The "Sunday Supplement" Treatment | 92 lines |
| 224.39 | Tue Aug 21 1990 22:48 | Anybody read this yet? | 15 lines |
TOPIC | 277.0 | Piers Anthony |
| 277.117 | Fri Aug 03 1990 14:54 | opti- or pessimism both seem self-confirming | 38 lines |
TOPIC | 376.0 | What happened to Star Wars?? |
| 376.118 | Tue Jul 09 1991 10:45 | projected release date of Star Wars III | 15 lines |
TOPIC | 752.0 | Lois McMasters-Bujold |
| 752.26 | Wed Sep 11 1991 13:01 | There is an internal chronology | 13 lines |
TOPIC | 839.0 | Dickson's The Dragon and the George |
| 839.14 | Thu Nov 14 1991 01:40 | "The Dragon Knight" | 7 lines |
TOPIC | 844.0 | Looking for Lazarus Long |
| 844.25 | Thu Jun 14 1990 06:29 | Ever been to a bad prose contest? | 47 lines |
TOPIC | 870.0 | Mon Apr 23 1990 02:25 | Filk | 114 lines |
| 870.2 | Mon Apr 23 1990 14:47 | a sample of what? | 43 lines |
| 870.16 | Sun Jun 03 1990 17:56 | demo tape, etc. | 39 lines |
| 870.17 | Thu Aug 23 1990 00:23 | Come to the Zoo | 23 lines |
TOPIC | 877.0 | Asprin: What has happened to Gleep? |
| 877.2 | Thu Jun 14 1990 06:49 | A new one is coming this month | 18 lines |
| 877.7 | Fri Jun 15 1990 18:16 | Oops... | 30 lines |
| 877.10 | Mon Jun 18 1990 13:18 | Here's the scoop | 41 lines |
TOPIC | 881.0 | How many pounds of TNT are mine? |
| 881.4 | Mon Jun 18 1990 15:42 | Speaking of megatonnes | 22 lines |
TOPIC | 900.0 | Zelazny's This Immortal |
| 900.5 | Tue Aug 21 1990 04:17 | another one | 6 lines |
TOPIC | 909.0 | Chicago Worldcon for 1991 |
| 909.2 | Mon Sep 17 1990 16:48 | Regarding the Art Show contact | 6 lines |
| 909.13 | Thu Aug 22 1991 20:39 | I'll be there... | 9 lines |
TOPIC | 911.0 | Arisia convention, Feb 1-3, 1991 |
| 911.3 | Mon Sep 17 1990 16:59 | Theme song contest | 20 lines |
TOPIC | 922.0 | Asimov's Victory Unintentional |
| 922.2 | Tue Oct 09 1990 00:10 | ZZ Two: "Our companion is often clumsy..." | 25 lines |
TOPIC | 924.0 | Whither LUNACON? |
| 924.2 | Tue Nov 20 1990 04:31 | Lunacon 34 | 72 lines |
| 924.5 | Mon Feb 25 1991 13:31 | About 3 hours | 19 lines |
| 924.6 | Tue Feb 26 1991 10:45 | simplest driving directions | 9 lines |
TOPIC | 949.0 | Martians attack Iraq, film at 11 |
| 949.2 | Mon Feb 04 1991 18:28 | Perhaps the middle-size fish should be looking out behind... | 14 lines |
TOPIC | 979.0 | Negative Utopia. |
| 979.18 | Sat May 11 1991 00:27 | Where do you draw the lines around this genre? | 15 lines |
TOPIC | 986.0 | Are There Any Multi-ethnic Science Fiction Authors? |
| 986.28 | Mon Jun 03 1991 22:10 | Rebecca Ore | 11 lines |
TOPIC | 1003.0 | Orson Scott Card's Xenocide |
| 1003.10 | Thu Aug 08 1991 19:08 | Still waiting on the edge of my seat for the next one | 14 lines |
TOPIC | 1006.0 | Virtual Reality stories |
| 1006.9 | Wed Jul 31 1991 22:58 | | 20 lines |
| 1006.13 | Thu Aug 01 1991 22:54 | The Silicon Man | 9 lines |
| 1006.30 | Tue Aug 27 1991 08:20 | How about "Wrote This"? | 1 lines |
TOPIC | 1017.0 | 1991 Hugo Awards |
| 1017.9 | Thu Sep 05 1991 22:44 | VOR didn't deserve a Hugo | 47 lines |
TOPIC | 1031.0 | RQ #7: Who do we miss most? |
| 1031.1 | Thu Dec 05 1991 03:20 | James Schmitz, Alice Sheldon, H. Beam Piper | 35 lines |
| 1031.13 | Thu Dec 05 1991 18:21 | Re .1 & .4: Not every author I mentioned is dead | 32 lines |
TOPIC | 1053.0 | Another SF Misprediction: Computers |
| 1053.6 | Mon Mar 02 1992 20:38 | I believe the SF is more accurate than not | 57 lines |
| 1053.9 | Wed Mar 04 1992 08:08 | Not what I'm looking for | 29 lines |