From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: nntp.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Paul Colin de Glocester Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada Subject: Jean-loup Gailly Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2025 19:36:05 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="708268602-1642477039-1754242568=:2711454" Injection-Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:36:09 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="814e0c7074605d8199f85d5904ecd231"; logging-data="1827782"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19UUcsD7cnBmSHFtIAPQvdtfSgizERNWFyG5NaVTwjfRg==" Cancel-Lock: sha1:XicIYqfHoBCEKpphz4/WzqmQoyc= Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:66860 fr.comp.lang.ada:2348 List-Id: This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --708268602-1642477039-1754242568=:2711454 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE These newsgroups are not very active - but news:comp.lang.vhdl is not=20 being so well - so if one wants to ignore these newsgroups then one can=20 also ignore this first article this month in these newsgroups. HTTP://Gailly.net a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0: =C2=AB=C2=A0From 1981 to 1989 I participated in the construction of code ge= nerators=20 and real-time systems for the Ada language within Alsys. I was a member=20 of the Ada language design team.=C2=A0=C2=BB He has however coauthored e.g. a book in C afterwards. Buggy Media Player (Version 11.2505.2.0 Copyright 2025 Microsoft) credits= =20 him. One can assume that he is not guilty of its bugs. These credits are=20 for System.Memory 4.5.3 and 4.5.4 and=20 System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe 4.5.2 and 5.0.0 and=20 System.Text.Encodings.Web 5.0.1 and System.Text.Json 5.0.2. I criticise Microsoft players on HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/FFMPEG_etc/FFPlay_modesty.HTM by contrasting them with FFPlay playing "a huge circa 4-gigabyte 74-hour=20 MPEG-4 file". I would have liked to promote some Ada application, but e.g. ALIRE Crates= =20 Audio_base and Audio_wavefiles by Audio Software Engineer Gustavo Andr=C3= =A9=20 HOFFMANN do not support MPEG-4 even though he worked on MPEG-4. Cf. HTTP://Gusthoff.com/cv.html and HTTPS://ALIRE.Ada.dev/crates/audio_wavefiles and HTTPS://Alire.Ada.dev/crates/audio_base --708268602-1642477039-1754242568=:2711454--