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Subject: Why no socket package in the standard ?
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 03:22:59 +0200
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Hello one again,

According to http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sockpit/
> First introduced into the 4.2 BSD UNIX=C2=AE operating system,
> the Sockets API is now a standard feature of any operating system.In  =

> fact, it's hard to find a modern language that doesn'tsupport the  =

> Sockets API.

This may help Ada (and be useful too) to add sockets in standard package=
s.

There is AdaSockets, http://www.rfc1149.net/devel/adasockets.html
which has cool licensing terms:
> This library lets you use BSD sockets from Ada (TCP, UDP and multicast=
).
> It is released under the GNAT Modified General Public License, which  =

> means
> that you can freely AdaSockets in a proprietary application without  =

> having
> it contaminate your code.

Nice, but still not part of the standard, and I cannot see a reason why,=
  =

such a fundamental thing, at least as fundamental as file access and  =

standard I/O streams are, is not part of the standard packages. May be a=
  =

candidate for an optional annex at least ? Already discussed or not ?

Sorry for any inconvenience if I ever missed something there (this  =

question seems so much basic I can't avoid feeling I've missed something=
).


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