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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-06 19:48:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.moat.net!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 21:48:24 -0500 Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 21:48:36 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau+news@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Macintosh/20040208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org> <54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> <406EB6D2.8030801@noplace.com> <87d66pyw1g.fsf@insalien.org> <406EEC35.7040109@noplace.com> <874qs0zvy1.fsf@insalien.org> <40714C98.90601@noplace.com> <1073gv22t969q5a@corp.supernews.com> <40729B9D.30906@noplace.com> <1076000ef5oj06f@corp.supernews.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.92 X-Trace: sv3-4saG3MSHMbjDmxWAm9t6S+uwKzP1tOJhY/19XVSR/KyDPstZxoxmOp+xos0Rw0igYVrb2AgVLa9CQOd!hJiUoVD2erwJdwHEriqBd0NQhUNZfafrqzbmiyV23xnaPhS0NRycigN8QTPE2NKOQMDUYeZrJ+rZ X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6795 Date: 2004-04-06T21:48:36-05:00 List-Id: David Starner wrote:n > Or I could go with Ada. There's no standard networking code, and no way > to input UTF-8 - I can't even input it into the basic character type and > process it, not and stay within the standard. (Of course, that's what > everyone does.) Worse yet, there's no standard or even existing libraries > (IIRC) that will normalize Unicode text or sort it in a language dependent > manner. > > It may be general-purpose, but it doesn't fit this purpose. Given that > a lot of programs need to access the net and handle the world's languages, > that's pretty bad. Maybe that's one of the opportunities Marin has been harping on. -- Wes Groleau ----------- Daily Hoax: http://www.snopes2.com/cgi-bin/random/random.asp