Re: ISO/IEC 14519 - Ada POSIX binding

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

I'd also suggest that if Ada is going to have any sort of sockets 
package, that it ought to be very "Ada-ish" written in "Ada-ese" rather 
than be developed in C using Ada syntax. You definitely want to use Ada 
idioms rather than trying to speak C with an Ada accent. To the extent 
that POSIX caters to C, I'd disregard it - creating a thick binding at 
best to hide things that are C-ish. Things like pointers to null 
terminated arrays of characters and error return codes from functions 
should all be rethought so that they have no existence in an Ada 
standard. Develop the interface so that it has an Ada look-and-feel and 
if it happens to line up nicely with POSIX, fine. But you don't simply 
want to point to POSIX and say "Go use that with Ada syntax"

MDC

Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> 
> 
> I don't agree, and my reasons are similar to Marin's. Certainly
> there is no reason not to use POSIX underneath the hood, where
> it makes sense. But I see no need to tie an Ada standard to a
> POSIX standard. Nor do I see a need to make an Ada interface
> match a C-ish UNIX one (for the record, I am a UNIX fan, saying
> this).
> 

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