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From: Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Seeking for papers about tagged types vs access to subprograms
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 19:39:18 +0100
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On 13/05/2013 19:01, in article kmr9ja$40g$1@dont-email.me, "J-P. Rosen"
<rosen@adalog.fr> wrote:

> Le 13/05/2013 19:30, Jeffrey Carter a écrit :
>> All the file handling seems poorly designed. I would only have 1 file
>> type (or a few, for input, output, and input-output files), for example,
>> with different levels of operations on them. It seems ridiculous to have
>> different File_Type's declared for Stream, Direct, and Text access to
>> files.
> Because you are used to poor operating systems like Unix and Windows,
> where files are simply a raw bag of bytes.
> 
> In the old times, when people still knew how to write OSes (VMS...), you
> had various kinds of files that were managed at OS level. A sequential
> file was the logical mapping for a tape, and a direct file for a disc.

Yes, and a complete pain in the neck it was too.

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