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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.42.235.14 with SMTP id ke14mr6850206icb.24.1431199548452; Sat, 09 May 2015 12:25:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.95.109 with SMTP id h100mr47626qge.6.1431199547314; Sat, 09 May 2015 12:25:47 -0700 (PDT) Path: border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!m20no1087264iga.0!news-out.google.com!t92ni261qga.1!nntp.google.com!j5no6327064qga.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 12:25:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.207.251.1; posting-account=sDyr7QoAAAA7hiaifqt-gaKY2K7OZ8RQ NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.207.251.1 References: <47c7df1e-17c1-44cb-a455-43431f0d39cd@googlegroups.com> <85zj5wb9et.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <4b14659e-8c26-4c0a-8945-a5289740e054@googlegroups.com> <51c639dd-a48c-4130-becd-750cb23094da@googlegroups.com> <35aabdcd-6064-4999-9cdf-d143b0593a31@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <34b70b7a-8769-4fd2-a78e-9713e637f438@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Textedit and txt From: Laurent Injection-Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 19:25:47 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: number.nntp.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:193100 Date: 2015-05-09T12:25:47-07:00 List-Id: On Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 1:35:52 AM UTC+2, Randy Brukardt wrote: > Well, either we'd modify the existing packages (which would be very=20 > incompatible, so it would never happen), or we'd have to add new ones. In= =20 > the later case, there would be a lot of opposition because we'd be=20 > duplicating functionality. If it happened, it would happen because of add= ing=20 > something like Root_String'Class to the language; then we'd need packages= on=20 > that type and those would necessarily be new. But I'm not expecting much= =20 > happening on that. >=20 > Randy. I can understand that for compatibility reasons there will be no new packag= e. But on the other side at a certain point one has to go forward and leave some old things behind. = (Apple is a great fan of that. One of the new MacBook Air models has only o= ne USB C connection). Otherwise we would still be using computers based on = vacuum tubes or programmed with punch cards or running on DOS. Just my 2 cents Laurent