Re: Subject: POSIX , Ada, Line Feeds, etc

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

Karl Nyberg wrote:

> [Posting for Dave Emery, demery@dsci-usa.com, editor of the early
> POSIX-Ada standard, I believe.  Apologies if I inserted this
> inappropriately into the hierarchy of the discussion...  -- kan]

> As one of the most widely used secondary standards, it's
> disappointing to see how few readers on this list lately are aware
> of the POSIX/Ada standard and its success in supporting portable Ada
> applications across conforming POSIX (and Ada compiler)
> implementations.

The pricing of the POSIX/Ada standard reduces its visibility and
popularity significantly.

If the POSIX/Ada standard was freely available in electronic form -
like the Ada standard - then I am sure we would see much more use of
the POSIX/Ada API, and not quite as many hand-coded bindings to the
POSIX/C API.

Greetings,

Jacob
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