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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,24a59fbc07128ff8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-07 07:30:49 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!isdnet!psinet-france!psiuk-f4!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: RE: rename missing in Text_IO Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 10:13:10 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9d6ahn$157$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 989244791 1191 136.170.200.133 (7 May 2001 14:13:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 May 2001 14:13:11 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7257 Date: 2001-05-07T14:13:11+00:00 List-Id: Yes sir! Very much so sir! Every time I have to dip into the Win32ada interfaces to get at Windoze, I wish I had an ever-so-slightly thicker binding that simply had its own parameter passing and data typing and all that so I don't have to deal with all the long chains of types & subtypes and ridiculous parameters that the C calls impose. Just clean it up and make it Ada-ish. Above that, one can always build a thicker binding such as what one might find in Claw. But at least let me connect to the bare OS using The Ada Way rather than C. Typically, I roll my own, but I only do so for the packages I need at the moment. It would be nice to have one for the whole interface - especially when it gets hard to understand what the C functions are doing with the parameters. (Ada is ***SOOOOO*** much nicer in the way it passes parameters!) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Beard, Frank" wrote in message news:mailman.989012885.31301.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org... > Even if the C version is there first, hide that from me. Take a good > idea and make it better with Ada. >