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From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner)
Subject: Re: GNAT, LINUX, KDE
Date: 1999/12/01
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On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 17:22:53 +0100, Tarjei Jensen
<tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> wrote: 

>Aidan Skinner wrote:

>For my taste AdaSockets contains too much C flavour.

I guessed this, that's why I suggestted building it on top of
AdaSockets, you then don't have to do the low level stuff and can
concentrate on the public interface itself

>>>I have discovered that is Ada vendors that supported interface.c were
>required

>>I think those sort of things are more in a POSIX stylee...

>It may be Posix, but they are still useful for socket programming.

Yes, but since not all systems that Ada is implemented on is POSIX,
or, indeed, POSIX-like supplying them shouldn't be required by the
language.

- Aidan

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