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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f297d5b850ee1e61 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-05 08:46:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!freenix!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: sk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada2005 clear screen etc. Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:52:21 -0600 Organization: ENST, France Message-ID: References: <87f5a614.0303011527.4cb09de2@posting.google.com> Reply-To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1046882784 34607 137.194.161.2 (5 Mar 2003 16:46:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:46:24 +0000 (UTC) To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" Return-Path: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020828 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34920 Date: 2003-03-05T10:52:21-06:00 Hi, : > As a external library. I don't see the need for it. I mean next > will be that we should have some sort of GUI standard in the > Ada standard. In case anybody is starting a voting process on this, I am in the group of hoping that specific platform needs are NOT incorporated into any new language standards. Let the market decide on useful *external* libraries, but do not burden the language itself with items possibly subject to fashion or politics. Eg, Sockets : Windows has an API for sockets, the rest of the world has another. I would not like for Ada, a few years from now, tied to the obsolete socket API when the politics gets sorted out and one API is accepted by all. Also especially since the abstract concept of "sockets" might have changed altogther and be called "connection" or "channel" or something. -- ------------------------------------------------- -- Merge vertically for real address -- -- s n p @ t . o -- k i e k c c m -------------------------------------------------