Re: Ada2005 clear screen etc.

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <uu1ehpv1s.fsf@nasa.gov>, Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov> writes:

> However, the ANSI standard for terminals has been around for a long
> time, and still has some use. Why not put it in the Ada standard?

Because the Ada standard should be for things that require support from
the compiler vendor.

There should be a body of widely used libraries that can be augmented on
a more frequent basis than the cycle for the language standard, but we
will never get there so long as people insist on shoving everything into
the language standard.