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: 103376,80ae596d36288e8a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why no socket package in the standard ? References: <872169864327910446.796089rmhost.bauhaus-maps.arcor.de@news.arcor.de> <9cb23235-8824-43f4-92aa-d2e8d10e7d8c@ct4g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <4ddb5bd7$0$302$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4ddb81b8$0$7628$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <87aaeban8a.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <8762ozahib.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <871uznaczz.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <015e3d6a-772a-41f8-a057-49c8b7bd80e1@w21g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <4MednVYCXuUZQEHQRVn_vwA@giganews.com> <6d913128-402e-47cc-ae3e-273b65198507@n10g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> <0fa361b8-3e13-4656-9ca9-786dcc8aceef@h36g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <87ipsx8nem.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 07:46:43 -0400 Message-ID: <82r57k74d8.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3aP54lA885lsm7DKBAm4pWYeHAM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 3164a4ddf8f24e029e66102723 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:20485 Date: 2011-05-27T07:46:43-04:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta writes: > Adam Beneschan writes on comp.lang.ada: >> On May 25, 9:36 am, Ludovic Brenta wrote: >>> Yannick Duchêne wrote on comp.lang.ada: >>> >>>> Peter C. Chapin a écrit: >>>>> It also true that autoconf is a travesty... a throwback to a darker >>>>> age when the POSIX standard did not exist (or at least was not >>>>> widely implemented). >>> >>>> I do not know that much about Autoconf, so I can't really understand >>>> what that mean and implies (someone else here also say a bit the >>>> same as you too). >>> >>> Make was invented to overcome the deficiencies of C, notably the lack >>> of modular programming and dependency management. >>> >>> Automake was invented to overcome the deficiencies of make, notably >>> the poor maintainability of Makefiles. >>> >>> Configure was invented to overcome the deficiencies of early UNIX >>> systems, notably the lack of conformance to POSIX, and their impact >>> of the maintenance of Automake files. >>> >>> Autoconf was invented to overcome the deficiencies of Configure, >>> notably the sheer size and horror of the configure scripts, which >>> routinely consist of hundreds of thousands of lines of illegible >>> POSIX shell code. >> >> I was going to ask what was the invention to overcome the deficiencies >> of autoconf, but I think I figured it out ... rm -rf, right? > > Opinions differ but I'd tend to side with you :) No! Ada and gprbuild :) we finally got it right :) -- -- Stephe