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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY, TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP 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: 2001-05-08 06:25:29 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: Subject: Re: RE: rename missing in Text_IO Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 09:24:56 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 13:24:56 GMT Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7318 Date: 2001-05-08T13:24:56+00:00 List-Id: In article , tmoran@acm.org says... > Perhaps "thick binding coordination" would fit nicely in the >Ada Bindings Working Group? I'd go for that. As I said, my main interest is in fobbing this job off on someone else. :-) >BTW, one of the major, but rarely mentioned, advantages of a thick >binding is that someone else has tracked down the obscurities, >ambiguities, MS doc errors, etc to find out what the various API >calls actually do, and how they need to hang together. The thinner Likewise, one of the major, but rarely mentioned, advantages to *writing* a thick binding is that you become quite well acquainted with the API in question. :-) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com