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Subject: Re: Why no socket package in the standard ?
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Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57 ) <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Hello one again,
> 
> According to
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sockpit/
> > First introduced into the 4.2 BSD UNIX® operating system,
> > the Sockets API is now a standard feature of any operating system.In
> >  
> > fact, it's hard to find a modern language that doesn'tsupport the  
> > Sockets API.
> 
> This may help Ada (and be useful too) to add sockets in standard
> packages.

Two questions:

Which modern, post 1990, language supports sockets in the language?

Which language supports features of modern file storage? (That is, file
attributes, files as documents (standardized ca. 1984),... )
Note that these capabilities are available with file archives, too.