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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X (Ada.Sockets)
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"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
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> In article <3ED4EB4E.6050108@cogeco.ca>, "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG"
<ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> writes:
>
> > I agree that it is probably time for an Ada standard on this ubiquitous
> > aspect of "general computing" today.
>
> Standard, as in required of all compilers ?
>
> That would be totally bogus in some embedded environments.

Not necessarily - we use DY4 COTS boards for our embedded
boxes. I can't imagine not using sockets with them (though granted
they are not used in flight). Even systems-on-a-chip have tcp/ip
stacks these days. May even be useful when developing that smart-
toaster :-)