Re: Ada is popular after all (POSIX binding)

[Guillaume Foliard <guifo@wanadoo.fr>]

Hello,

Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:

> Doing POSIX programming in Ada is not quite as easy as I hoped:
> 
>  - There are apparently holes in the POSIX/Ada API compared to the
>    POSIX/C API (utmp/wtmp comes to mind).
> 
>  - We have no easy alternative to "man 2 <system call>" and "man 3
>    <library call>".
> 
>  - Some design choices in the POSIX/Ada API seem illogical (error
>    handling comes to mind).
> 
>  - Some implementation choices in Florist seem rather inefficient
>    (access permissions come to mind).
> 
>  - Florist is buggy on Ubuntu (procedure Open_Or_Create comes to
>    mind).
> 
> I make the course materials available at
> <http://edb.jacob-sparre.dk/Posix_in_Ada/>.
> 
> Comments and corrections are very welcome.


It might be interesting to share your views with the team working on the Ada
POSIX binding revision. The ISO standard is currently being revised, and
volunteers/contributors are welcome.
You will find informations on the standard revision there :
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG9/n479.pdf

Guillaume