From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 11 Dec 92 13:52:03 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!mars.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu!larry@u cbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Larry Maturo) Subject: Re: How badly will C bias in the POSIX standards groups hurt Ada bindi ngs? Message-ID: <1992Dec11.135203.21345@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> List-Id: 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 >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >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. +-----------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ | | | | Larry Maturo | Opinions expressed herein must be | | Tactical Simulation Division | yours, neither I nor my employer have | | Applied Research Laboratories | any. | | University of Texas at Austin | | | P.O. Box 8029 +----------------------------------------+ | Austin, Texas 78713-8029 | | | | When you're as great as I am it's hard | | larry@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu | to be modest, but I succeed where | | | others fail. | +-----------------------------------+----------------------------------------+