Re: How badly will C bias in the POSIX standards groups hurt Ada bindi

[agate!spool.mu.edu!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!mars.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu!larry@u cbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Larry Maturo)]

In article <1992Dec11.123901.22406@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com 
(fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>In <62711@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
>
>>How much do you want to bet that the language independent specification
>>(when it appears in several millenia) looks almost identical to the current
>>C bindings?  That ISO wouldnt dream of having the C bindings change more than
>>a couple of commas so that they dont upset the C POSIX users, but that they
>>wont think twice of asking (nay telling) the Ada community to completely chan
ge
>>our bindings to conform to their views? (after all, they are not the ones who
>>have to use the damn things)
>
>Actually, given that POSIX is based on UNIX and UNIX is built out of
>and around C, I would be surprised if they selected something that is
>too far from C for a specification language.  It's simply a better fit
>for what is being specified.
>
>Personally, I dislike the idea of 'thin' bindings -- all that having
>to cross-reference back and forth seems to amount to throwing a
>roadblock in front of anyone trying to use the Standard.
>
>-- 
>"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
> in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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>Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me
.


Actually, I have had the most success with thick binding that have been built o
n
top of thin bindings, no matter what the area of interest.  Given that, maybe
the thin bindings are at least a good starting point.


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