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,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,94bac711cf2950f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-26 07:39:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!supernews.com!feed.textport.net!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3BD87B95.2000703@maciejsobczak.com> <9rbnqb$dja$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: Newbie wanna Ada Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:38:33 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:38:33 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15250 Date: 2001-10-26T14:38:33+00:00 List-Id: In article <9rbnqb$dja$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... > >Here's another example of things that migh make good additions in some form >to an Ada standard library. The GUI part is a bit ambitious because of the >multiple possibilities on different platforms, but why not a standard Ada >sockets library component? It should be possible to come up with a package >interface that is implementable on just about anything that does TCP/IP, >right? Windows and Unix would probably cover the bulk of the demands. There is the issue that not every Ada platform has TCP/IP. That's not an insurmountable problem, but it does mean that it would have to be in an optional annex (Network Programming annex?) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.