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-Thread: 103376,8de7eedad50552f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!news.illinois.net!attcg1!ip.att.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada bench : count words Date: 23 Mar 2005 23:02:09 -0600 Organization: Berbee Information Networks Corporation Message-ID: References: <87vf7n5njs.fsf@code-hal.de> <423f5813$0$9224$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <18arnvu705ly4$.1wz6ybz1jt70y$.dlg@40tude.net> <1q9cx4jt7802s.k45m6mcntl87$.dlg@40tude.net> In article , Robert A Duff writes: > Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes: >> The C routines with which I am familiar (VMS) seem to force the user >> to convert everything into a stream of bytes and then the C routines >> convert it back into the actual file format (like those listed above). >> _That_ is my idea of inefficient. > > I'm not a big fan of Record Management Services, by the way. ;-) So it sounds like your life does not have much need to share indexed files between programming languages.