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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Platform portable support of heir. file systems
Date: 1996/12/18
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In article <32B8508F.2B7D@online.no>, "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei@online.no> writes:

> somewhere around here on this theme). The point is not to capture all
> the fine points, but enough to keep the programmers comfortable.

My choice of Ada is to drive the errors to compile-time (on my machine)
rather than run-time (on my customer's machine).  If a program I write
in Ada cannot deal with a directory structure created from some other
language, that is a defect.  To the extent that a common package hides
from me the differences between operating systems, it may assist me in
adding defects to my programs.  Quite frankly, I can do well enough on
my own, thank you :-).

Larry Kilgallen