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: 103376,2d2df3e9ad18fa63 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-29 08:10:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!feed.news.nacamar.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.enyo.de!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ISO/IEC 14519 - Ada POSIX binding Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:10:09 +0200 Message-ID: <87znk0hqcu.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: <87znkbqmby.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: albireo.enyo.de 1056899409 13814 212.9.189.171 (29 Jun 2003 15:10:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:K4mCAuPvylEKdD31z8CeUp42jNQ= Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39890 Date: 2003-06-29T17:10:09+02:00 List-Id: Mark Lorenzen 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.