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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Introducing memcache-ada, a memcached client in Ada
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On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:56:17 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> Claw.Sockets is mostly stream-oriented; it doesn't provide all of the 
> functionality of the raw sockets level in order to make an abstraction much 
> more like the file abstractions that Ada programmers are familiar with.

BTW raw sockets, they don't work anymore under Windows since XP SP 3 (or
2). In order to have them working an Ada implementation would need to
install an NDIS driver.

> In 
> that sense, it is a bit higher level than the GNAT sockets and Adasockets. 
> That seems better to me, presuming that you don't need the low-level 
> functionality [not sure why you would, but I am never surprised anymore 
> about that sort of thing].

I don't consider raw sockets low-level, they are in OSI sense, but from the
software design point of view it is just a different I/O interface.

If I designed a socket library for Ada, I would separate all kind of
interfaces (TCP, UDP, raw, PGM etc) into different child packages.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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