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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7b9027678f309105 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: asmang@CRAZYSPAMmail.wm.edu (Arun Mangalam) Subject: Re: Laser printing from ADA (Windows) Date: 1998/10/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 405977828 References: <3632263f.7551068@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net> <363376e7.127480@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net> <3633c188.19236172@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net> <3634aec6.547292@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net> <714lbe$fh6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36373bbe.408787@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com X-Trace: C1PCVzRcZEsv13sVnCVV86SJR9ymfx5uoHk4jVy55PU= Organization: William & Mary Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-10-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <36373bbe.408787@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net>, tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote: >>>On Tue, 27 Oct 1998 dennison@telepath.com wrote: >>> >>>> In article <3634aec6.547292@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net>, >>>> tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote: >>>> I think he is referring to his own misunderstanding >I'd like to point out that the quote-count ">>" is incorrect here. I >did not say anything about anybody's misunderstanding - that was >Dennison's comment. I'm sincerely sorry. I saw my mistake as soon as I saw the original. In any case, my reply was almost accurate since your reply did have unnecessary sarcasm, unless you really didn't know what was meant by [sic] "Bazar". >> Making everything public domain (in which >>you can and probably should contribute) is one of the reasons other >>languages such as C and C++ have taken off > > Having paid for the vast majority of my C coded programs, I'm >surprised to hear that everything in C and C++ is public domain. I'm pretty sure your paid-for C-coded programs are more complicated than just printing code. If not, well, either you are well-endowed or the company or organization you work for is well-endowed. :) In any case, I'm sure I can find public-domain code out there for the simple WinAPI functions such as printing for C as well as C++. That is not to say C or C++ is better or their users are better. In fact, your previous posts were very helpful for understanding what needs to be done to get such simple printing functions working with Ada. I have looked at CLAW, and I think their comprehensive framework is probably very good. I would like just a very simple implementation of print if someone has it around, so I can just play around wth it. In fact, the first thing I tried to do with GNAT as soon as I installed it on my Win95 machine is find out how well it interfaces with Win95 as is. I would love to create interfaces for it for the Macintosh. Anyway, I digress... -- asmang@CRAZYSPAMmail.wm.edu remove the CRAZYSPAM to reply. These spamming buggers are really annoying.