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Jeffrey Carter wrote:

> Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
>> Develop some Open Sourced code in
>> without gnatprep, and we'll see how portable it is ;-)
> 
> Here's some Q&D open source, GPLed code to solve the following 
> requirments, assuming that the proposed Ada.Directories is not 
> available: List the names of all the files in the current directory, 
> sorted in String order (that is, the order defined by "<" for String), 
> one per line.
> 
> Sure, this is a simple problem, but I don't have the time to work a 
> significant problem. If you think a more complex problem should be used, 
>  provide the problem and your solution to it.

Precisely the problem: all solutions proposed have been
towards simple problems.

Try writing a binding to curses, to run with:

   - UNIX real curses
   - GNU curses
   - PDcurses

then, make it compile and work for win2k, Linux, Solaris,
and HPUX. Do it without gnatprep or code generation.

Yes, you can dumb this assignment down to a few curses calls
and be successful at this. But try providing the full complement
of functionality for each of the above curses libraries.
-- 
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://ve3wwg.tk