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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Why no socket package in the standard ?
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 06:11:43 +0000 (UTC)
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> Except (I just looked at the source) I personally don't enjoy bindings
> which end to introduce C like namings [*] in Ada. Things like PF_INET,
> IPPROTO_IP or SOL_SOCKET looks really strange for an Ada source;

A thicker binding is NC sockets ("Not Claw", derived from Claw.Sockets).
It's nc.zip at www.adaworld.com, look there under
Ada Projects/Ada Internet Projects/Internet Protocols
It's for Windows but IIRC the WSAStartup and WSACleanup should be
the only Windows specific things.