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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3689d3c938c589e5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-22 06:46:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!skates!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Directory listings and path names Date: 22 Jan 2002 09:45:22 -0500 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: skates.gsfc.nasa.gov 1011710954 11291 128.183.220.71 (22 Jan 2002 14:49:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: dscoggin@cne-odin.gsfc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Jan 2002 14:49:14 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19177 Date: 2002-01-22T14:49:14+00:00 List-Id: Brian Rogoff writes: > Surely, we can find many OSes which provide no tasking, some tasking, > sophisticated tasking, etc. I subscribe to the view that what goes in > a language versus what goes in an OS is rather arbitrary. The same is > true for language and library. Library design is language design. I don't think this is true. The tasking constructs in Ada _cannot_ be provided by an Ada package; they require compiler support. Thus they are fundamentally different from directory operations, which clearly _can_ be provided by a package. This is separate from the question of whether a directory/file operations package should be part of the standard. I agree it would be nice, also hard. Perhaps a good compromise would be for all the Ada vendors to support the Florist POSIX bindings, on OS's where that is not too hard. -- -- Stephe