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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8d3f28f2a74233d2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-31 22:10:53 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: gressett@iglobal.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newbie Questions about Get, Get_Line Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:12:10 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: Reply-To: gressett@iglobal.net References: <98pt4t477fqavihkgfbjioo7peo9vb7f20@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3504 Date: 2001-01-01T00:12:10-06:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: >>The real problem here is that the designers of the Ada.Text_IO package >>quit too soon. There should have been an Ada.Interactive_IO which >>would deal with more of the problems of screen and Keyboard IO in a >>standard way. > If there was an Ada.Interactive_IO that worked well for DOS it would >be quite unsuited for Windows style programs. And vice versa. It doesn't need to suitable for Windows; for that, a binding for the Windows API would be used. What I have in mind would be suitable for a dumb terminal, DOS, a console window in Windows, an X terminal, etc. Something fairly simple. Simple problems that get repeatedly solved should have standard solutions, so that they quit being problems.