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- From: uunet!algor2!jeffrey (Jeffrey Kegler)
-
- In article <346@longway.TIC.COM> uunet!aries.mitre.org!emery
- (David Emery) writes:
-
- >We in the Ada community (regardless of Unix-literacy) have a heluva
- >lot more experience with formal standards documents than the Unix
- >community.
-
- This is a bug not a feature. The ADA community has done little so far
- except work with standards.
-
- >Consider how most people learn Unix. It's not by studying
- >SVID, but rather by learning an implementation.
-
- Learning programming from a standard is like learning seamanship in the
- Rockies.
-
- Do not get me wrong. While I earn my living from UNIX/C, I have studied
- ADA, like many of its features, wish some were in UNIX, and would not
- object to programming in ADA someday. That day will never come if the ADA
- community thinks it can do without input from UNIX practitioners.
-
- Representation on the committee does not necessarily make any difference,
- as long as there is input. If this POSIX standard comes out as anything
- less than a joint effort with the community of UNIX practitioners, the ADA
- people will have done themselves a great disservice. And I will have
- wasted my time spent studying ADA.
- --
-
- Jeffrey Kegler, President, Algorists,
- jeffrey@algor2.UU.NET or uunet!algor2!jeffrey
- 1762 Wainwright DR, Reston VA 22090
-
- [ Let's try to turn this back into a more technical discussion. -mod ]
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 16, Number 52
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