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: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-29 10:12:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-in.mts.net!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor References: <400A9B48.3060100@noplace.com> <400BD4B5.6000307@noplace.com> <400BDB7C.40100@noplace.com> <400D2150.6000705@noplace.com> <400E72F9.8060501@noplace.com> <100upo7ln5e3k59@corp.supernews.com> <400FC8E8.2040100@noplace.com> <_JSdna166JuxFo3dRVn-hg@comcast.com> <401115B7.5020205@noplace.com> <101gi766nkf57b6@corp.supernews.com> In-Reply-To: <101gi766nkf57b6@corp.supernews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <9WbSb.57525$Kg6.643692@news20.bellglobal.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:04:41 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1075399429 198.96.223.163 (Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:03:49 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:03:49 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5054 Date: 2004-01-29T13:04:41-05:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt wrote: > "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote in message > news:r4BRb.52247$Kg6.387022@news20.bellglobal.com... > .... >>Try writing a binding to curses, to run with: >> >> - UNIX real curses >> - GNU curses >> - PDcurses >> >>then, make it compile and work for win2k, Linux, Solaris, >>and HPUX. Do it without gnatprep or code generation. > > We had this problem with our JWindows text window library. (That was a > pre-cursor to Claw.) Our solution to this particular problem was to use none > of the above (we didn't trust the C code much anyway, particularly on SCO.), > and instead we directly intepreted the Termcap structures. That was a mess, > but it worked pretty well on all of the platforms that we tried it on. > (Which included Suns, Alphas, and the Unisaurs.) Well, I would agree that the ideal solution would be to rewrite all GNU libraries in Ada. I would agree that a POSIX kernel in Ada would be nice (or AdaOS). But until that happens, I don't have the luxury of rewriting everything ;-) > These days, its not clear that that would work, but so what? No one in their > right mind used curses back then (late 80's) and I fail to see how that's > changed now. > > Randy. Curses is far from dead. There are still a large number of text mode terminals used around the globe. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://ve3wwg.tk