Re: Programming for the World in Ada95

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>]

kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

> If you expect people to read that book before responding, you may have
> a long wait.

Not *so* long, since I read it months ago.  ;-)

The advice in the book is pretty much language independent.
I don't think there's anything specific about Ada that
affects the issues (other than just general good support
for abstraction).

> If you want useful software, you will build it so the system manager
> can configure the language settings in a fashion typical for the OS
> in use.  That means you will not be able to avoid platform-specific
> issues.

Sad, but true.

- Bob