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: 103376,92640d662fc31a03 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-16 05:45:14 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!lsanca1-snf1!news.gtei.net!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B02692E.8DB72E17@earthlink.net> From: "Marc A. Criley" Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: howto make system calls (newbie question) References: <9d6cip$1rf$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3af9470c.18806277@news.nl.uu.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:45:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.252.122.149 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 990017112 158.252.122.149 (Wed, 16 May 2001 05:45:12 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 05:45:12 PDT X-Received-Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 05:43:34 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7557 Date: 2001-05-16T12:45:12+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > In article <3af9470c.18806277@news.nl.uu.net>, Noam Kloos says... > >All ada systems have the package Text_IO in common. > >So the only way a program can comunicate to other programs is > >about reading and writing each others files. > > That's a bit strong. For one thing, its quite possible to *portably* interface > to external C code using "pragma Interface (C,...)" and the types in > Interfaces.C. The purpose of XML is to portably and language- and system- independently provide a mechanism for exchanging information between different programs and systems. Marc A. Criley Senior Staff Engineer Quadrus Corporation www.quadruscorp.com