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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-19 01:24:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!news-out.triton.net!triton.net!newsfeeder.triton.net!news.cse.sc.edu!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died)) References: <3lIxa.13309$8g5.207727@news2.e.nsc.no> <3PJxa.13336$8g5.208066@news2.e.nsc.no> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.3b1 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 08:23:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.47.50 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1053332617 144.132.47.50 (Mon, 19 May 2003 18:23:37 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 18:23:37 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37506 Date: 2003-05-19T08:23:37+00:00 List-Id: In article , Preben Randhol wrote: > Well the internet is also old, so your point is? I agree that there are > a lot of things that could be done differently, but it all boils down > to who is the user? Ok, I should have said it seems "old and creaky", i.e. that there are (or should be) better ways of doing things. Do you want to give access to a file to someone? You can get a patch for Access Control Lists for linux, which doesn't quite put it into the term "unix" yet. Signals are a bit of a mess (setjmp anyone?), and I find the posix interface rather ugly, due in most part to its C heritage and lack of namespaces. And I only know a little bit about Unix... Dale