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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANN: Simple Components for Ada v3.14 with SMTP client Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 14:49:45 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: vFKDMXWEWKqnQQwESBoFfw.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:30871 Date: 2016-06-22T14:49:45+02:00 List-Id: On 22/06/2016 14:25, slos wrote: > That's fantastic good news, both for having this feature integrated > and for the so fast integration. It is Ada that makes things easier than in other languages. I am frequently ranting about many missing features in Ada, but nevertheless Ada if far better than anything else. > Thank you very much for your not so "Simple Components". It is fairly simple to implement new protocols in the Simple Components framework. E.g MODBUS took one week. SMTP took longer because it is quite poorly designed and has a load of extensions getting progressively more cra*ed with each iteration. > I am playing with node-RED and IBM Bluemix at the moment and I'm > pretty sure to be using your MQTT and SMTP Client features very soon > from "Ada for Automation". Interesting. Maybe you will find some sense in this "technology". My provider offers cloud space. It goes without saying that the thing just does not work. How one manages to invent something that works worse than FTP is beyond me. Good luck. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de