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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Linux/POSIX packages for GNAT
Date: 1998/02/22
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Andi said

<<Why? I don't see a connection. urgency of needing something is not directly
connected to wide deployment of the same thing.
>>

I can see how there can be an urgent need for *some* binding to *some*
set of facilities.

But to decide that a particular binding is *the* solution seems strange
unless that binding has a reasonable currency as a standard in use.