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From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
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Date: 7 Aug 2001 06:53:45 -0500
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In article <yqGb7.25848$B37.497768@news1.rdc1.bc.home.com>, kaz@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku) writes:
> In article <3B6F312F.DA4E178E@home.com>, Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
>>The STL is not used in all contexts (it's just not practical). If you call 
>>pipe(2), you will not be using a vector from the STL. You'll use a naked
>>int[2] array. This is only one example.
> 
> Note that pipe() is an entry point into a POSIX operating system. Unless
> you have POSIX Ada bindings, you are going to have to use the C interface
> to call this thing at some point. The same goes for whatever programming
> language you are using.

POSIX is not an operating system.

What makes you think I am going to call POSIX at some point ?
I have not done so as yet, after 13 years of Ada programming.
Can you tell me when this will happen ?