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: 103376,92640d662fc31a03 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-08 06:55:25 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!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: howto make system calls (newbie question) Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 09:43:37 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9d8t6a$t8r$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9d6c89$1nd$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9d87id$oll15@news.kvaerner.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 989329418 29979 136.170.200.133 (8 May 2001 13:43:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 May 2001 13:43:38 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:7322 Date: 2001-05-08T13:43:38+00:00 List-Id: I like the Ada-fied sockets part in particular. It would be nice to get bindings to common things that used Ada-ish parameters. (Sockets made to line up nicely with Ada.Streams? Hmmmmm???? A nice Object Oriented approach to sockets rather than the customary C-ish approach?) 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/ "Tarjei T. Jensen" wrote in message news:9d87id$oll15@news.kvaerner.com... > > Marin David Condic wrote in message <9d6c89$1nd$1@nh.pace.co.uk>... > >Its nice to find myself being totally agreed with! :-) Maybe you can expand > >on the idea. What sort of standard libraries would you like to see in Ada? > > The obvious ones. E.g. console I/O, adafied sockets, buffered I/O, national > language support (NLS), turbo pascal style strings, NLS string comparison, > file utilities (expand wildcards, get file names from a directory, delete > file, set file protection, etc), dynamic library support (load library, > symbols under program control), standard datatypes for system calls, > standard datatypes for the C library. > > > Greetings, > > >