From: frc@stellar1.com
Subject: question re Ada equivalent of C function
Date: 1998/02/22
Date: 1998-02-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34ef8225.83906260@enews.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1998Feb21.194544.1@eisner
Agreed. What I am after is a means - more than a C transliteration -
of accessing I/O hardware which requires this kind of read/write
functionality. My only basis of description is the C functions that I
have used to do this.
David Fisher
>In many cases trying mimic the functions of another language means that
>you end up writing an an unnatural style (for Ada) and giving up the
>more powerful constructs of Ada. Learn all you can about programming
>in a normal Ada style (there are lots of good books available) and
>only after you have that mastered should you consider emulating other
>languages in very special cases (which certainly exist).
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-21 0:00 question re Ada equivalent of C function David Fisher
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-02-21 0:00 ` David Fisher
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-22 0:00 ` frc
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22 0:00 ` frc [this message]
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Linux/POSIX packages for GNAT Markus Kuhn
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-24 0:00 ` question re Ada equivalent of C function Dale Stanbrough
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Linux/POSIX packages for GNAT Andi Kleen
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-03-05 0:00 ` Testing exception handlers James M. Darlack
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