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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c971df1c3d047387 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-09-06 11:31:58 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-east!sn-xit-uk!195.86.7.162.MISMATCH!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!freenix!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!cyclone-west.rr.com!news.rr.com!news-west.rr.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!firehose.mindspring.com!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: getpid(), atoi(), time functions in Ada 95 Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 14:29:14 -0400 Organization: Quadrus Corporation Message-ID: <39B68CFA.7FC23F8B@acm.org> References: <8p4mqi$capp9$1@ID-25716.news.cis.dfn.de> <39B6546D.FCEA8614@telepath.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b7.3e Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 6 Sep 2000 18:29:01 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:527 Date: 2000-09-06T18:29:01+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Take away the punchbowl just when the party gets going" -- William McChesney Martin, Former Fed chairman, explaining what a sound central bank must always do. ======================================================================