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-Thread: a07f3367d7,31af760e939556ef X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Interpretation of extensions different from Unix/Linux? Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 19:49:10 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: +ERTOT2Y9KJRZ8n+NpAZGA.user.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.0 X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Cancel-Lock: sha1:+yU6N2J0g+sPaU2TFuQrndywsoc= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8115 Date: 2009-09-02T19:49:10+00:00 List-Id: > > I have an application that builds mp3 playlists. I specify the > > root directory of the mp3 file tree on the command line, the Ada code > > searches within that directory for mp3 files to add to a playlist. > > I said "typically". A command-line application for maintenance of > playlists, which does not support file browsing by is by no means typical. "Unusual" for one person is "typical" for another. I have an Ada system that runs a TV station. There are lots of places where the user uses a GUI to indicate a show, and the program needs to scan a directory to find its episodes, or he indicates a show episode and the system needs to build a playlist by scanning a directory to find the video files, or the user loads a DVD and the system needs to scan its directory to find the video files. The user sees "show", "episode", "DVD" as his abstractions - he doesn't see directories or files.