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,f6ee8ca03c176d76 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-29 12:30:57 PST Message-ID: <3D6E751F.70109@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020618 Netscape/7.0b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: stupid question: how can I finish a program? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:25:19 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1030649120 198.96.47.195 (Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:25:20 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:25:20 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28574 Date: 2002-08-29T15:25:19-04:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > From: Bob Leif > To: The readers of Comp.Lang.Ada > We have been witness to an extended discourse on this subject. Although, > it appears that there may not be an utterly reliable solution to this > problem, it is quite evident that even an imperfect solution would be > better than none. Since as an Ada user I know that the Ada compiler > vendor's technical knowledge is better than my own, I would prefer that > the vendor supplies their best effort; and that the call to this > ubiquitous routine be standardized. The vendor would have some issue with this however -- when his phone starts ringing with complaining customers about why this "feature" doesn't always work, and that the vendor "should fix this piece of _____, that he paid x bucks for" blah blah blah. The best you can hope for here IMHO, is that the application writer should know both his application and the platform(s) of deployment. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg