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: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-26 04:01:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <401501AB.9070508@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor References: <400A9B48.3060100@noplace.com> <400BD4B5.6000307@noplace.com> <400BDB7C.40100@noplace.com> <400D2150.6000705@noplace.com> <1b585154.0401252000.cf008c5@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:01:49 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.22.208 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1075118509 209.165.22.208 (Mon, 26 Jan 2004 04:01:49 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 04:01:49 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4806 Date: 2004-01-26T12:01:49+00:00 List-Id: Well, there you go. Ada doesn't provide a "standard" way to do it - perhaps out of some sense of technical purity. People still find it an attractive way to fix the problems they have maintaining things for two or more platforms. What do they do? They home-grow an answer that solves their problem (while not being portable) - or they go use a language that gives them what they want. MDC Peter Richtmyer wrote: > I have not read the entire thread. Bottom lines for me: > 1) too bad Ada does not have a preprocessor > 2) I needed one, so I created one > > It has served me well for 4 years on Win2000, Solaris, HP/UX, > and LynxOS. Not elegant but very useful to me, to take code > home at night, develop/test on Win2000, then back to work with the > same source code (preparsed) to continue to develop/test on Solaris > (or other). > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================