From: Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org>
Subject: Re: Microsoft & Ada
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:42:54 -0500
Date: 2004-09-11T11:42:54-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xd6dndUfkoCTtt7cRVn-hA@gbronline.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sa43c1p6lf9.fsf@snoopy.apana.org.au>
Brian May wrote:
> What if, say Microsoft were to design and implement thick Win32
> bindings for functions that are not standardized in Ada? Some
> examples: Win32 GUI or serial IO.
>
> Would this be considered a good thing or bad thing?
Probably good, unless it was an attempt (and a successful
one) to eliminate open source bindings and therefore
other products using open source bindings.
> What if there were able to implement the bindings in such a way that
> they don't have to supply any source code? What if the bindings can
> only be used with Microsoft's compiler? (I guess it may still be
Even if Microsoft's compiler is fully validated (and I wouldn't
take _their_ word for it for a second), it could still contain
extensions (for example, GNAT has 'Img) that no other compiler
has--and as soon as another copies it, M$ will change it.
Then their bindings could be written to use such extensions....
> I think there are a number of related issues here, so I am curious
> what peoples thoughts are on the matter.
My thoughts are that no matter how good a Microsoft
product is or seems to be, their history shows that
they nearly always include some kill-the-competition
feature. And rarely include enough reliability
features.
--
Wes Groleau
Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which
the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.
-- unknown
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-11 10:53 Microsoft & Ada Andrew Carroll
2004-09-11 11:49 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-09-12 7:56 ` Pascal Obry
2004-09-13 3:10 ` Adrian Hoe
2004-09-13 16:45 ` Pascal Obry
2004-09-11 12:02 ` stephane richard
2004-09-11 12:26 ` Brian May
2004-09-11 12:43 ` stephane richard
2004-09-11 16:42 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2004-09-12 1:27 ` tmoran
2004-09-12 8:01 ` Pascal Obry
2004-09-12 22:04 ` Wes Groleau
2004-09-13 3:14 ` Adrian Hoe
2004-09-11 21:05 ` Björn Persson
2004-09-11 23:11 ` stephane richard
2004-09-12 3:12 ` Jeffrey Carter
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2004-09-13 4:39 Robert C. Leif
2004-09-14 2:19 ` Adrian Hoe
[not found] <20040908230107.A580B4C40C4@lovelace.ada-france.org>
2004-09-09 7:20 ` Andrew Carroll
[not found] <20040907010534.A306B4C40C2@lovelace.ada-france.org>
2004-09-07 6:31 ` Andrew Carroll
2004-09-08 12:15 ` Pascal Obry
2004-09-08 17:22 ` stephane richard
2004-09-08 21:57 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-09-13 3:07 ` Adrian Hoe
2004-09-13 3:05 ` Adrian Hoe
[not found] <01bd7718$08467e80$3cfc60ca@public>
1998-05-04 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1998-05-09 0:00 ` Mark D McKinneyq
1998-05-04 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1998-05-05 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-05-11 0:00 ` Daren Scot Wilson
1998-05-11 0:00 ` Dirk Craeynest
1998-05-12 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-05-11 0:00 ` david.c.hoos.sr
1998-05-14 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-05-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-06 0:00 ` Adrian BY, Hoe
1998-05-06 0:00 ` Sergey Makarenko
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