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From: "Julian Morrison" <julian@extropy.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: When will next Ada revision be? (83, 95, ?)
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 04:00:19 +0000
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"Tucker Taft" <stt@averstar.com> wrote:

> I would agree that some kind of sockets interface should be considered,
> something on the level of java.net.Socket and java.net.ServerSocket.
> Perhaps also an HTTP servlet interface.  These might want to be
> "secondary" standards, or perhaps part of an "Internet" annex.

My own preference would be to avoid standardizing any *particular*
protocol, even HTTP - since they chop and change and upgrade much faster
than languages do.