From: David Shochat <shochat@itg-sepg.logicon.com>
Subject: Re: Environment variables
Date: 1996/11/01
Date: 1996-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <327A32A3.2DD0@itg-sepg.logicon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: DEMER.96Oct30135844@cdfsun03
This whole thread is making me rather sick. I was recently involved with
an effort involving porting a good bit of Ada 83 code to Ada 95, in
which the necessary conversion of X-windows code from "AXI Bindings" to
"Intermetrics Bindings" was fairly massive and non-trivial.
My point is that things like reading environment variables should be
standardized. On our project we have tried to stick to the POSIX
packages (Forest for us -- the newer one wasn't available when we
started) for Unix interface functions which aren't standardized in the
RM. When a C programmer wants to read environment variables, she doesn't
have to choose among 6 different interfaces and worry about what happens
when she moves the code to a different vendor's compiler etc. I know
reading environment variables is an extremely exercise in pragma Import,
but this sort of thing should just be there to use. As it is for the C
programmer (regardless of whose compiler he is using).
..Sigh
-- David
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-30 0:00 Environment variables Christopher J Arnold
1996-10-30 0:00 ` David Taylor
1996-10-30 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-11-01 0:00 ` David Shochat [this message]
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-13 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Standard libraries (Was: Environment variables) Geert Bosch
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-16 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-11-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-01 0:00 ` Environment variables Stephen Leake
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-11-01 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-01 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-05 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-10-31 0:00 ` James Rogers
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Doug Smith
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-06 0:00 ` David Wheeler
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Christopher J Arnold
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-01-21 0:00 Environment Variables John M. Greer
1997-01-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-01-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-24 0:00 ` Mike Bishop
1997-01-25 0:00 ` Doug Smith
1997-01-27 0:00 ` David Emery
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