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: 103376,8893269a4640c798 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-22 05:36:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: terminate applications Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:36:44 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3F1D2FDC.1070402@noplace.com> References: <3F17DF3C.4080204@noplace.com> <3F196773.2060809@noplace.com> <3F19F86C.9050808@attbi.com> <3F1A772F.9060708@noplace.com> <3F1AD6FB.8080806@attbi.com> <3F1BD666.6040506@noplace.com> <3F1C4DA6.3070405@attbi.com> <3F1D29E8.60107@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.bf.ee Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 22 Jul 2003 12:36:50 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40635 Date: 2003-07-22T12:36:50+00:00 List-Id: Ahhhh, but now we are dependent on C to do the work for us and all the Ada critics will rightly say "See?!?!?! Ada just isn't as popwerful as C is!!!" :-) And then we're back to the "Well, you can always build a binding to Language XYZ's library of really useful stuff....." argument that has Ada forever playing "Catch Up" to other languages and fails to persuade people to use Ada. If you can do something like this in C, why shouldn't Ada have the same facility? MDC Arnaud Charlet wrote: > > procedure Halt; > pragma Import (C, Halt, "exit"); > > ... > Halt; > > and be done with it. -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================