From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Omission in the Ada Standard
Date: 25 Sep 2003 21:02:53 -0500
Date: 2003-09-25T21:02:53-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FCXCULOub5Pu@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: kYMcb.582614$o%2.263727@sccrnsc02
In article <kYMcb.582614$o%2.263727@sccrnsc02>, "Jeff C," <nolongersafeto@userealemailsniff.com> writes:
> Third...What this really points out is not so much a problem with the Ada
> standard as much as
> a problem with providing standard platform specific libraries. It has always
> seemed to me to be
> a shame that there is no good standardization for platform specific
> libraries in Ada.
On VMS there is Starlet, which is used by both DEC Ada and GNAT.
But more important, it is also used by Compaq Basic, HP C, Kednos PL/I,
etc. So accessing OS features is well documented for all languages.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-26 2:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-25 15:05 Omission in the Ada Standard Robert C. Leif
2003-09-25 17:12 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-09-25 19:47 ` Simon Wright
2003-09-26 1:51 ` Jeff C,
2003-09-26 2:02 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2003-09-26 13:05 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-10-06 3:50 ` Dave Thompson
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2003-09-25 18:57 Robert C. Leif
2003-09-25 19:24 Beard, Frank Randolph CIV
2003-09-26 0:30 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-09-26 16:10 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-09-26 17:38 ` Jeff C,
2003-09-28 21:43 ` Keith Thompson
2003-10-09 16:56 ` Jerry Petrey
2003-10-10 2:07 ` Jeff C,
2003-09-26 18:04 ` Jeff C,
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