Re: How to run a GNAT program without starting a terminal session

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 9:40:18 PM UTC-5, Jerry wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 2:09:49 PM UTC-7, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> > 
> > Btw, MacOS happens to have a (historically) BSD kernel (that is now somewhat heavily modified), but MacOS, especially as the personality presented in userspace, is truly a rather divergent not-terribly-Unix OS called Dylan.
> 
> BSD kernel --> Doesn't it use Mach?
> Dylan --> Do you not mean Darwin?
> 
> Dylan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language) was a new language that Apple
> developed. I think that Dylan was one of the many projects that were painfully dropped after Steve Jobs
> returned and pulled Apple out of the sh*tter. Does anyone remember the object-oriented OS that Apple
> and IBM were co-developing called Pink?
> 
> Jerry

Sorry, yes, I meant Darwin, as even I occasionally mention in prior c.l.a postings about my ARM-Apple-Darwin yearned-for LLVM target for Ada, which is the missing piece for me to switch all of my multiplatform iOS/MacOS/Windows10/Android-JNI-to-JVM-UI development to Ada2012 instead of C++14. 

I really really shouldn't multitask.  In another window, regarding Julia potentially emerging as a Python replacement, I was writing a separate private email to someone else about Julia's unfortunate lack of static type system like infamous Dylan's unfortunate lack of static type system but unlike Fortress's static type system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language)#Language_features

Another gaff:  I wrote “parent UID” a few replies ago where fixed UID and fixed parent-PID should have been discussed separately.

And yes, Pink was where Taligent taught the C++ world about mix-in inheritance as the •only• useful restricted(-via-idiomatic-self-discipline) form of C++ multiple inheritance, as borrowed from the Lisp-family language Flavors, where pure-interface is captured via inheritance (i.e., without any nonzero-length extension to the record).  Nowadays we almost all call it “interface inheritance” instead of mix-in, forgetting the Flavors, Taligent, and Pink seminal references of yesteryear predating Java.