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: 103376,2d2df3e9ad18fa63 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-24 06:38:30 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-in.mts.net!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3EF852A6.9080004@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: ISO/IEC 14519 - Ada POSIX binding References: <87znkbqmby.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3EF730B4.2060408@cogeco.ca> <3EF83AE0.9060002@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:31:18 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1056461478 198.96.223.163 (Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:31:18 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:31:18 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39667 Date: 2003-06-24T09:31:18-04:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > So maybe we want to abstract I/O over pipes or sockets in the same way > that high level languages abstracted I/O to/from files on a disk? I'd > prefer to see such an abstraction rather than a simple binding to some > specific OS services that might change over time. > > MDC Yes. By doing that you give the standard a lifetime independant of other fads of the day (POSIX being one of them). The "abstraction" also allows native Ada. Yes. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg