From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: System Calls
Date: 1998/12/25
Date: 1998-12-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <760dhr$pbs$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1998Dec24.140342.1@eisner
In article <1998Dec24.140342.1@eisner>,
Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote:
> Actually, VMS uses "[","]","<",">","." and the ever
> popular ";".
> ";" is used in particular for file versions, and a VMS
> user faced
> with a program that did not handle file versions properly
> would
> judge it as a very poor program indeed.
>
> So the problem is just as you said, only worse.
Yes but the original questioner excluded VMS, and that
is perfectly reasonable, a package that covers Unix and
NT (and OS/2 and Win95 without extra effort) is still very
useful to most people. The VMS user community is a small
sliver, and while it is nice to include VMS where possible
(as is done for example in GNAT.OS_Lib) it would be a
mistake to let the idiosyncrasies of VMS impede progress
here!
Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-16 0:00 System Calls mabrouk BELHOUT
1998-12-16 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-17 0:00 ` Gilles Sarnikowski
1998-12-17 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-18 0:00 ` mabrouk BELHOUT
1998-12-24 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-12-24 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-12-25 0:00 ` dewarr [this message]
1998-12-29 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1998-12-29 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1998-12-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-12-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-12-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-02 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-12-25 0:00 ` dewar
1998-12-25 0:00 ` dewar
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1998-12-23 0:00 mabrouk BELHOUT
2001-07-10 18:20 Matt Raikes
2001-07-10 21:55 ` Dale Stanbrough
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