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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: thp@cs.ucr.edu (Tom Payne) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/04/02 Message-ID: <4jrio0$ork@galaxy.ucr.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 145442492 references: <31582A63.4BE9@east.thomsoft.com> <4jeel1$erh@tpd.dsccc.com> <4jp388$d56@tpd.dsccc.com> <828445854snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu organization: University of California, Riverside newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Lawrence Kirby (fred@genesis.demon.co.uk) wrote: : In article <4jp388$d56@tpd.dsccc.com> : kcline@sun132.spd.dsccc.com "Kevin Cline" writes: : : >As usual, you missed the point, Jon. Different Ada-83 compiler vendors : >provided different bindings to key functionality like UNIX OS calls : >and X/Motif. Of course these bindings were proprietary. : > : >This was never a problem for C code. ANSI-C compilers have been available : >for every platform you can name for many years, so porting C code from : >one vendor's compiler to another was never a big problem. : : ANSI C doesn't define UNIX OS calls so isn't really relevant to your point. : Unix calls are reasonably standardised for C through the likes of POSIX and : X/Open which is natural because C is the core development language for : the platform. There is, as I understand, a POSIX standard for Ada bindings, which I've not seen mentioned in this discussion. I'd like to know more about it. What is its state of development? Does GNAT support it? Tom Payne (thp@cs.ucr.edu)