From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,37f42c4ebb5b5f04 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Markus Kuhn Subject: Re: Ada & Posix Date: 1998/02/23 Message-ID: <34F16BAE.6005E4A8@cl.cam.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 327808837 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <01bd3fe2$e3a76880$5d2c5c8b@aptiva> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Cambridge University, Computer Laboratory Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jerry van Dijk wrote: > It would be great if we would have Posix bindings on > the major platforms with all compilers, as that would > remove a lot of environment dependenties in our code. Fully agreed! Adding a good POSIX.5 binding with man pages to the GNAT distribution should help a lot to make Ada an attractive system programming language for Unix systems. > 1) Anyone willing to do such a binding will first have > to spend money on buying a standard; Expensive paper-only standards are a real hazzle for non-commercial (academic) users. Suggesting your local university library to get a copy is probably the best approach. > So, I am not suprised that -AFAIK- no Ada vendors > are rushing to get the standard implemented. And as a consequence, not much portable system programming for Unix in Ada seems to be going on at the moment and GNAT seems to be mostly used for teaching the language since C development environments still provide a much richer API at the moment and every Ada developer has to first come up with his private subet binding to the C libraries before he can start with the actual project. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK email: mkuhn at acm.org, home page: