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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92640d662fc31a03 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-07 09:50:13 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!titan03.ksc.nasa.gov!niven.ksc.nasa.gov!usenet From: "Samuel T. Harris" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: howto make system calls (newbie question) Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 11:41:36 -0500 Organization: Raytheon Aerospace Engineering Services Message-ID: <3AF6D040.FF71B782@gsde.hou.us.ray.com> References: <9d6c89$1nd$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Reply-To: samuel_t_harris@raytheon.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sstf-fw.jsc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.2 IP19) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7272 Date: 2001-05-07T11:41:36-05:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > > Its nice to find myself being totally agreed with! :-) Maybe you can expand > on the idea. What sort of standard libraries would you like to see in Ada? > Of course, there are other "standards" which are not part of the Ada standard. For instance, the POSIX Ada binding has been invaluable to me in writing portable code which requires facilities from the operating system. Since this is standardized by IEEE, I feel any particular need to include it as an Ada LRM annex. -- Samuel T. Harris, Principal Engineer Raytheon, Aerospace Engineering Services "If you can make it, We can fake it!"