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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: why not
Date: 31 Oct 2001 06:52:03 +0000
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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:

> I'm of the opinion that if something just simply came with the
> compiler you use, there'd be pressure to settle on that library
> rather than adopt one of N possible other libraries. (Do C users go
> find other variations of "strcmp", etc? Do Ada users go download
> alternatives to Ada.Strings..., etc?  There may be better libraries
> out there, but the pressure to go with what comes with your compiler
> is pretty strong.)

I'd not have started supporting the BCs if there had been a standard
out there. I'd _probably_ not have done so if there'd been a
vendor-specific library for the compiler I was using (its being
open-source would have helped a lot).

A case in point: I have no problem using GNAT.Sockets since it's open,
it's not GNAT-specific (I think), it's fairly thin (so no great
surprises) and its use is likely to be localised in my application.