Re: Taking another spanking.

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh.plus-bug.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>]

anon wrote:
> As for GNAT.Sockets.Thin -- I expand what "Robert Dewar" the CEO and 
> one of the chief authors of GNAT said in Aug 3, 1996 at 3:00 am.  
> 	"If you can do it in C, you can do it in Ada! Use pragma Import 
>          and call exactly the same routines that you would call from C." 
> 
> In this case, I expand that to: Why not use GNAT package GNAT.Sockets.Thin 
> instead of re-creating a few "pragma import" or re-creating the Thin package. 

GNAT.Sockets is vendor specific, sockets aren't as far as Ada goes.
GNAT.Sockets.Thin is not only vendor specific, the vendor says you
should not use it.
Pragma Import is standard Ada.  POSIX is a standard.
If sockets are ubiquituous, I'd think that the community
of Ada programmers might like vendor neutral sockets code.
Much more than it would like, say, IBM.Rational.Sockets.NonGNAT,
or GNAT.Sockets.Thin.