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: 103376,41b2c090403fab50 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-10 12:44:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3DA5D8AC.6020201@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Creating tempfile takes too long: GNAT or Windows bug? References: <4a4de33a.0210090358.fc50c13@posting.google.com> <3DA463E8.1080202@cogeco.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 19:44:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.0.81 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1034279098 63.184.0.81 (Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:44:58 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:44:58 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29687 Date: 2002-10-10T19:44:58+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > Preben Randhol wrote in message > news:slrnaq8u1b.8sv.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no... > >>Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: >> >>>commercial software wonderful?) I ended up creating a >>>simple C program that periodically cleans out any of these >> >>Why not Ada? >> > > Probably because its quicker and easier to use OS calls with C because the > OS is written in C. Dipping into an Ada binding to access C stuff always > feels like an unnatural act and invariably complicates the job. Just another > data point indicating it would be useful to have an Ada OS and that the > argument "Well, you can always bind to blah blah blah..." is seldom > compelling. :-) I just have for %%f in (%temp%\*.*) do del %%f in my autoexec.bat. -- Jeff Carter "You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it." Horse Feathers