Re: Command line arguments

[joeo@masscomp.westford.ccur.com (Joe Orost)]

In article <3034@cod.NOSC.MIL> sampson@cod.NOSC.MIL (Charles H. Sampson) writes:
>                             Suppose there were a standard Ada technique
>for accessing command line parameters.  What would it gain you?  You
>could get at the parameters, but they would be different on different
>operating systems, so the code to process those parameters would not be
>transportable.
>
>     In saying this I assume that you want the parameters in the VMS
>version of your program to be VMS-like, and in the UNIX version to be
>UNIX-like.  If this assumption is wrong we can argue about it, but the
>issue is then user interface, not Ada.

The C language forces the UNIX style of command arguments onto different 
systems, and in doing so, has achieved a certain level of portability.

Why can't the Ada language do the same thing (or even follow C's lead
and also specify the UNIX conventions)?  [In fact, POSIX/Ada provides this.]

Aren't all future operating systems UNIX based, anyway :-) ?

				regards,
				joe

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