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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3009af37fa605de6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-20 12:29:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!sfo2-feed1.news.digex.net!intermedia!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator-la!news-in-la.newsfeeds.com!news-in.superfeed.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <2520ChLDayYC@eisner.encompasserve.org> Subject: Re: Ada communicating with other programs Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:29:00 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:29:00 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16750 Date: 2001-11-20T20:29:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Preben Randhol says... > >On 20 Nov 2001 10:51:00 -0600, Larry Kilgallen wrote: >>> Why not use the regex capabilities of GNAT? >> >> Perhaps because he said he wanted to do it in Ada. >It isn't written in Ada now? My understanding was that it uses some assumptions about the internal structure of Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Unbounded_String that may or may not be true for other compilers, and for that reason it isn't portable. Its perhaps a bit of a stretch to go from that to "isn't written in Ada", but it was pretty clearly at least a half-joking comment. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.