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: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-28 10:16:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3ED4EB4E.6050108@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X (Ada.Sockets) References: <6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com> <3ED4A94C.2020501@noplace.com> <3ed4c9a2@news.wineasy.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 13:01:02 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1054141262 198.96.223.163 (Wed, 28 May 2003 13:01:02 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 13:01:02 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37921 Date: 2003-05-28T13:01:02-04:00 List-Id: Tarjei T. Jensen wrote: > "Marin David Condic" wrote: > >>I think a standard Ada sockets package would be A Good Thing. > > > It is not A Goo Thing. It is A Neccessity. It must be present for Ada to > survive in general computing. I found it interesting that Windows XP (I think), finally now supports the Berkeley Sockets interface, rather than the terrible winsock interface of the past. It would be interesting to know whether they did it because porting PD/GPL code was a pain for "them", or whether this was seen more as a progressive thing (more likely, customers kept begging them to do it). I agree that it is probably time for an Ada standard on this ubiquitous aspect of "general computing" today. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg