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: 103376,4f316de357ae35e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-31 17:11:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D487CDA.24D9B1AE@san.rr.com> From: Darren New X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: FAQ and string functions References: <20020730093206.A8550@videoproject.kiev.ua> <4519e058.0207300548.15eeb65c@posting.google.com> <20020731104643.C1083@videoproject.kiev.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 00:11:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.74.216.166 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1028160706 66.74.216.166 (Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:11:46 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:11:46 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27550 Date: 2002-08-01T00:11:46+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > Yeah, but in Ada you have to implement it > Suppose I'm writing a long-lived application that does string fiddling. If you're writing a long-lived application, the time it takes to write the string-fiddling subroutines (once) is minor. > So I think the original poster's complaint is reasonable. The complaint > is, "X is not available"; the response, "well, you can write X yourself" > is not impressive. This is true, but becomes a smaller complaint as code size grows. It does make it harder to do something simple in Ada. Of course, doing real-time interrupt handling in Perl is a bit of a nightmare, too. :-) -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. ** http://home.san.rr.com/dnew/DNResume.html ** ** http://images.fbrtech.com/dnew/ ** Things to be thankful for, #37: No sausage was served at the Last Supper.