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: 103376,8d3f28f2a74233d2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-31 13:11:41 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!216.218.236.179.MISMATCH!news!news.he.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newbie Questions about Get, Get_Line References: <98pt4t477fqavihkgfbjioo7peo9vb7f20@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 21:07:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.20.190.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com 978296823 24.20.190.201 (Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:07:03 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:07:03 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3499 Date: 2000-12-31T21:07:03+00:00 List-Id: >The real problem here is that the designers of the Ada.Text_IO package >quit too soon. There should have been an Ada.Interactive_IO which >would deal with more of the problems of screen and Keyboard IO in a >standard way. If there was an Ada.Interactive_IO that worked well for DOS it would be quite unsuited for Windows style programs. And vice versa.