Re: ISO/IEC 14519 - Ada POSIX binding

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

Mark Lorenzen <mark.lorenzen@ofir.dk> writes:

> Personally I do not think that 44 CFH (approx. 33 USD) is expensive:

For a mere file?  It's not exactly cheap, but you are right, it's much
less than I expected.

When ISO didn't offer PDF downloads, the printed version cost about as
much as the CD version today (CHF 340).

> You are correct that POSIX is not perfect, but it is PORTABLE and
> supported by a lot of interesting platforms.

POSIX is portable, but POSIX applications aren't necessarily so.  At
least the C version of the standard leaves so many loopholes that you
really can't write portable applications on the whiteboard.  I haven't
checked if the Ada version is better in this regard, but FLORIST
doesn't try to hide any discrepancy in the underlying C
implementation, so it doesn't matter that much for us GNAT users.