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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,33a6944ba1b879de X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-07 07:34:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.217.77.102!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Modern copy of GNAT for OpenVMS? Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 10:33:57 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: References: <3DEF8BDB.7050009@acm.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b4.9b X-Server-Date: 7 Dec 2002 15:34:08 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31533 Date: 2002-12-07T15:34:08+00:00 List-Id: Yeah, but there you're talking more about "convention" than lack of portability. A CLI based Unix app may use things like "-Uxlaksdret" and a VMS app may be more oriented to "/optimize=time/list=file.lis" and so forth. But at least the app stands a reasonable chance of compiling and running out of the box. (Sometimes you'll have differences in how command line parameters come in when the program is executed, but the "Command/Response" interaction of the app should be portable, right?) Compare that scenario to anything that needs to rely on a GUI or perhaps networking or a database and its got to look more portable. You get something, but you give something up as well. MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "I'd trade it all for just a little more" -- Charles Montgomery Burns, [4F10] ====================================================================== Larry Kilgallen wrote in message news:rwP$65EJL$ZL@eisner.encompasserve.org... > > I disagree that CLI applications are portable. There are plenty of > Unix-style applications that get ported to VMS and end up being just > that, an out-of-place application that honors none of the standards > of the operating system on which it is running. > > There is no such thing as a free lunch.