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!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:18:25 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:18:33 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <2f813569-5ff8-4c20-a5ab-8538e6514906@googlegroups.com> <1f562daa-f551-4950-93c4-99555c0e3ab3@googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.249.18.30 X-Trace: sv3-XRfYME6UfCo8P8WxpF83UYj9k/qTZc6pNIfcQW6Ao5f4UGCX6xIcc6DQQXih9XrDoDE9Lm66xtWh7fy!iV0LqQV+QlEsgHiQkp1Pg81CnuR2hLozVpkG5Sm7uK2yyi5bCSfOIsVleeFB5Z2D0yCGSzLQnPVN!ZiLM8zmQPoEYJ+OKVXshBlN08w== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2241 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:17279 Date: 2013-09-24T19:18:33-04:00 List-Id: On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:38:32 -0700 (PDT), krfkeith@gmail.com declaimed the following: >I love the laughable claim that WinNT is poorly designed. While some of the userland has left some to be desired, the core of the NT systems is *very* competently designed. The NT team was lead by Dave Cutler, of DEC fame. The internals may be good -- though I could wish for even more of VMS to have been "ported"... Like (common) event flag clusters, IPC via mailboxes, and maybe even the entire QIO system... Somehow the objects that WinNT+ uses for "wait" don't feel natural to me, and the divorced socket I/O system show a few warts (select only works on sockets, need a different API for files, etc.) But the failure to provide a decent command shell scripting capability (a la DCL) saddled it. PowerShell finally makes an apologetic entry (Pity my main use is a glorified "find": get-childitem -path "xxx" -filter "*.ext" | select-string -pattern "yyy" ) -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/