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-Thread: 103376,8de7eedad50552f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada bench : count words Date: 24 Mar 2005 20:34:38 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <87vf7n5njs.fsf@code-hal.de> <423f5813$0$9224$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <18arnvu705ly4$.1wz6ybz1jt70y$.dlg@40tude.net> <1q9cx4jt7802s.k45m6mcntl87$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1111714478 9898 192.74.137.71 (25 Mar 2005 01:34:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 01:34:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9945 Date: 2005-03-24T20:34:38-05:00 List-Id: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes: > In article , Robert A Duff writes: > > Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes: > > >> The C routines with which I am familiar (VMS) seem to force the user > >> to convert everything into a stream of bytes and then the C routines > >> convert it back into the actual file format (like those listed above). > >> _That_ is my idea of inefficient. > > > > I'm not a big fan of Record Management Services, by the way. ;-) > > So it sounds like your life does not have much need to share indexed > files between programming languages. True. VMS does an admirable job of being language independent, and that's a Good Thing. - Bob