Re: getpid(), atoi(), time functions in Ada 95

[Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org>]

Ted Dennison wrote:

> Nick Roberts wrote:
>
> > With respect, do questions like this need, perhaps, to carry one of the
> > following riders?
> >
> > - I am not a student.
>
> I'd say no. This wasn't a request to do the work for them. It was a requst for
> information about how to go about doing the work. I'd personally have no problem
> telling a student that. For instance, if the previous poster who just
> regurgitated his homework assignment had added "Where would I go to find this
> information?", I think he would have got a lot fewer snide responses. Instead,
> he added "Does anyone know how to do this?". To me, that has an implied, "If so,
> please tell me. Then I can copy your answer verbatim into my homework, turn it
> in to the teacher, and get an 'A'".
>

Ummm... Maybe my newsreader is a little out of sync. The original question I saw
was:

"Do these Unix/C functions have corresponding functions in Ada 95? (I'll be
working on Solaris.)"

Somewhere somehow this seems to have been interpreted as a student looking for
homework being done. It didn't look that way to me. Or am I missing something? It
seemed to me a fair question for someone hoping to do some programming with Ada
under Solaris.

I don't want to be unfair to anyone - it just didn't sound like a student question
to me.

Well, David Starner posted the answer, so if it is student homework, the cat is
already out of the bag. :-)

MDC


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