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On 24 Jan 1996 jguthrie@brokersys.com wrote:

> I also take exception to your statement that you hardly ever need to use
> such code, and therefore, it must not be important.  One of the main
> reasons that I stopped using Modula-2 for the stuff I was doing
> professionally was the difficulty I had coding CRC routines because I
> didn't know about the casts to BITSET.  That may be a small use, but it
> was vital to what I needed at the time.

Hmm...  That's too bad.  I still swear by Modula II, but I also had to 
write a CRC routine.  I ended up writing one in assembler.  It was just 
as easy as doing it in a high level language, a lot more efficient, and 
the only problem was that I had to mess with my make file for a while 
before it linked in correctly.  I also wrote a set of AND, OR, XOR, etc. 
routines, but then I ended up never needing them again in my program.  
Bitwise operations are usually avoidable, and when they aren't, you have 
your options.  However, now the best option is to get a new version of 
your compiler.  The new Stony Brook compiler (I don't know if it has been 
released yet - I used a Beta release last summer) has BAND, BOR, and BXOR 
as compiler extentions.  I expect that most other compilers also have 
extentions (I have heard rumors about them here and there).

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Douglas Cook, undergraduate in Computer Science at BYU
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