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From: Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com>
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/02/22
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Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> 
> PL/I-style "record" I/O is also not supported by Ada 95.
> It might actually be worth discussing this at some time; what did DEC Ada
> do about RMS?

It added extra packages. See Chapter 14 of the DEC Ada language reference
manual for the descriptions of

   Relative_IO
   Indexed_IO
   Sequential_Mixed_IO
   Direct_Mixed_IO
   Relative_Mixed_IO
   Indexed_Mixed_IO
   Aux_IO_Exceptions

> --
> Election time; but how to get Labor _out_ without letting Liberal _in_?
> Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.