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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: OS Bindings (was: Where is the elusive jump command?)
Date: 2000/04/06
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In article <eisner comp.lang.ada:53670>, Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ohk@clustra.com> writes:

> kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

>> Are you saying that no Ada vendors for Unix provide bindings ?
>> 
>> That seems incredible in the face of all the hype about how Unix
>> is ideal for programming.
> 
> Actually, I was only saying that I could tell you which vendors do
> supply one. During the last years, I've only used GNAT for Unix, which
> provides an interface to some of the system calls. 
> Btw., I've now checked Aonix, and they do provide a Posix
> interface. Don't know how complete it is.
> 
> I still think Unix is pretty good for programming. You cannot blame
> the OS for poor support from Ada vendors :-)

Certainly not, but I would expect vendors of any software product on
an operating system would have to conform to expectations of those
who use the operating system in order to have any success. In the
case of compilers, this means bindings.