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Subject: Re: Why no socket package in the standard ?
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 03:39:45 +0200
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Le Tue, 24 May 2011 03:22:59 +0200, Yannick Duch=C3=AAne (Hibou57)  =

<yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> a =C3=A9crit:
> There is AdaSockets, http://www.rfc1149.net/devel/adasockets.html
> which has cool licensing terms:

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; use of =
 =

this kind of abbreviation is typically discouraged, with good reasons. A=
  =

standard package would also be an occasion to give it a more Ada-ishe  =

design and presentation.


[*] Not because that is C namings, but because of what these namings are=
.


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