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,c30d9137a672c74d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Ada95 for Windows 95 Reviewers Wanted Date: 1996/03/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 143860312 references: <01BB15A1.A55A5820@janusada.msn.fullfeed.com> <4ivkd2$gkp@azure.dstc.edu.au> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-03-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "I'm in no position to judge whether or not RR's bindings are of good quality, but I think that my point is a valid one anyway. The Ada user community would not be well served by having lots of mutually incompatible W95 binding products. I would hope that the Ada community is now mature enough to strongly resist such a trend!" I disagre with the sentiment here. Ther is no point in standardizing thick bindings of low quality. I am not saying anything about the quality of the RR bindings, about which I too an not in a position to judge. It is the "valid one anyway" in the above comment that I question. There is certainly value in haveing generally available bindings, and in fact the ARA recently formed a group specifically oriented to looking at bindings to see which of them might qualify as being in this category. I actually think it is much mre important to have a reasonably universal thin binding since that is what tool vendors need (they are modifying C generation stuff, they want something as close as possible to the C binding anyway). A well done, well documented, thick binding is a useful addition, but only if it meets these criteria. That being done, I agre that it would be very helpful if anyone producing bindings would disclaim both copyrights and interface copyrights on the specs of what they do, otherwise people will not want to bother trying to get involved with making them comon anyway.