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: 103376,9fb574c7c04a7299 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Terminal emulator in Ada ? Date: 2000/08/24 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 661939530 References: <8o1gdc$ico$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 967122229 216.44.122.34 (Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:03:49 GMT) Organization: LJK Software NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:03:49 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-08-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , ncherry@home.net wrote: > A friend of mine is interested in ADA and would like to find some > source code to a terminal emulator written in ADA. Does anyone know of > such an example? Any pointers would be appreciated Ada has many strengths over competing languages to help a programmer eliminate defects, but getting the programmer to pay attention to the problem specification is not one of them. I would expect a terminal emulator written in Ada to be not particularly better than the raft of lousy terminal emulators written in C. I have a terminal emulator which I presume was written in C, and occasionally it does crash. Far more prevalent in the world of terminal emulators, however, are defects in the way the terminal emulation is done, meaning the wrong actions are taken. At several successive yearly conferences I attend public Windows stations have been provided, but only with what Microsoft calls a terminal emulator. It cannot display correctly with common ordinary programs at the other end, but it does not crash. Of course one possible reason it does not crash is that nobody can stand to use it long enough for it to crash.