From: cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.
Subject: Re: How to Make Ada more widely used?
Date: 2 Jun 93 00:48:55 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Jun2.004855.10662@leeweyr.sccsi.com> (raw)
In article <1993Jun2.004023.10578@leeweyr.sccsi.com> bill@leeweyr.sccsi.com (Bi
ll Lee) writes:
>Some background:
>
>
>The answer as I see it is the POSIX Ada bindings. I am using them
>at work, but the "designers" who read through the POSIX specs and
>decided what was "required" unfortunately knew (know?) nothing
>about Ada. And the bindings we have been given have left out the
>most rudimentary elements: e.g., the generic read/write procedures
>in the I/O spec!
>
Just so nobody misunderstands: the "designers" were those at work,
not the POSIX bindings people. 1003.5 is as good a piece of work
as you could ask for. Too bad that the IEEE is so dead-set against Ada
that they are trying to force thin bindings on everything else.
Bill
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