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: 103376,80ae596d36288e8a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why no socket package in the standard ? Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:18:50 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87k4d4z6b6.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 21:18:54 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="cJo7kSTQUrCFv2/D8KKtqw"; logging-data="7929"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/6f+ZQCdUnfqjJoa59BLHz" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:4fQMqFbh/drsRYs5LBXYkvcCZC8= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:20585 Date: 2011-06-02T23:18:50+02:00 List-Id: Le 02/06/2011 22:38, anon@att.net a �crit : > I think most would say where's the IEEE Math standards 754-2008 before > adopting a BSD standard, IEEE 754 standard, have existed since 1985 > before Ada 95, so why it is not include in Ada 2005 and beyond. > Because there are many machines that do not conform to IEEE, and it is widely recognized that forcing IEEE arithmetic was a major flaw in Java. Ada did not make the same error. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Adalog a d�m�nag� / Adalog has moved: 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00