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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-23 09:54:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!zeus.visi.com!priapus.visi.com!orange.octanews.net!news.octanews.net!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor (Was: why ada is so unpopular ?) References: <_JSdna166JuxFo3dRVn-hg@comcast.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <6ddQb.24862$zj7.17571@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:54:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.14 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1074880450 63.184.105.14 (Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:54:10 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:54:10 PST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4731 Date: 2004-01-23T17:54:10+00:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus wrote: >... I think it would be wonderful >to get rid of the type Name in system and add three string constants: > >Operating_System: constant String := implementation_dependent; >Hardware_Architecture: constant String := implementation_dependent; >Compiler: constant String := implementation_dependent; >Version: constant String := implementation_dependent; FOUR string constants ... chief among our string constants ... I'll come in again. -- Jeff Carter "C++ is like jamming a helicopter inside a Miata and expecting some sort of improvement." Drew Olbrich 51