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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3689d3c938c589e5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-24 16:17:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.xnet.com!dfw-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!bpr.best.vwh.net!bpr Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Directory listings and path names In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:17:51 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.220.65.223 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 1011917802 192.220.65.223 (Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:16:42 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:16:42 GMT Organization: Verio Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19291 Date: 2002-01-25T00:17:51+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Marin David Condic wrote: > Not strictly true. Accessing a file system rather implies that there *is* a > file system and hence something vaguely resembling an OS that accesses it. > Tasking, OTOH, can exist on a bare-silicon platform with nothing more than > some sort of Ada RTK that supports the scheduling. (Unless we want to insist > that anything at least as sophisticated as an Ada RTK can be considered an > "Operating System".) You're just nitpicking. The important point is not whether file system access is provided by the core language but whether it is in the standard. Ada has an Information Systems annex but no hierarchical file systems annex. I think the latter is at least as important as the former. Sure, its easy enough to come up with a package but we all understand the benefit of a standard, don't we. Anyways, I know about the AI and I'm just making noise :-). I usually make noise about things which will sadly never change about Ada. However, this is really low hanging fruit and it is a shame that we don't have it now! -- Brian