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!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Successor Language Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 21:37:51 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <5e86db65-84b9-4b5b-9aea-427a658b5ae7@googlegroups.com> <710c0764-bd2a-4b60-a4c2-ae1f0cfba4e7@googlegroups.com> <87in6zp2l1.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: CvkHMVp693S8Z+lk11jyqg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:52927 Date: 2018-06-04T21:37:51+02:00 List-Id: On 2018-06-04 18:54, G. B. wrote: > I don‘t know a good reason for free software to depend on layers of Unix > “ported” to Unix! Isn’t it a better idea to clean out dated non-portable non-POSIX > dependences? [ Well, having no POSIX is a great advantage ] It looks that Mac OS X is no position to have a say in anything. The situation is similar to the one for Ada. We have to use horrid Linux C libraries however much we hate it, because there is no substitute written in Ada. > Even performance wise, and addressing architecture, if GNAT can benefit > from features of the Darwin OS, why put a hindrance of several layers of C > libraries in between? Because there is nothing else? -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de