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-Thread: a07f3367d7,dea2d62ab1462538 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!noris.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:09:58 +0100 From: Georg Bauhaus User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Writing an Operating System in Ada References: <8e9bc311-7540-40a1-b19e-49e93648c25c@s31g2000yqs.googlegroups.com> <9oyblld05omh$.1dzhmyoseeb7x$.dlg@40tude.net> In-Reply-To: <9oyblld05omh$.1dzhmyoseeb7x$.dlg@40tude.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4b4d8de5$0$6550$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Jan 2010 10:09:57 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 508ffbc6.newsspool4.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=JUI4OI9DFcIj7E:bke<5HF4IUK:D0Inc\616M64>JLh>_cHTX3jMo9]g]Lo2V@C X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8721 Date: 2010-01-13T10:09:57+01:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov schrieb: > The problem is that we followed the wrong path for too long. All these > standards (XML to name one) are based on these flawed untyped file - "don't > care about the contents" model. There could be no return, maybe. The name "Don't care about the operations" model of file systems seems adequate because virtually all contemporary file systems and archive formats offer file type indication (via extended attributes). Only the C and Ada libraries typically do not make programmers aware of this fact.