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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Execution_Time
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> Nope, one of the killer arguments ARG people deploy to reject most
> reasonable AI's is: too difficult to implement on some obscure platform for
> which Ada never existed and never will. (:-))

The ARG and others have been guilty of that sort of argument in the
past, although I think "most reasonable AI's" is an exaggeration.
I think that line of reasoning is wrong -- I think it's just fine to have
things like Ada.Directories, even though many embedded systems don't
have directories.  It means that there's some standardization across
systems that DO have directories.  Those that don't can either
provide some minimal/useless implementation, or else appeal
to RM-1.1.3(6).

I think today's ARG is less inclined to follow that wrong line
of reasoning.

(I don't much like the design of Ada.Directories, and I think
you (Dmitry) agree with me about that, but it's beside the
point.)

- Bob