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- Submitted-by: duke@ctt.bellcore.com (Bob Robillard)
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- The deadline for getting in the ballot group for POSIX
- 1003.1/1003.16 has been extended to May 15. This is the
- "Language Independent" version and "C binding" of the
- POSIX system calls. If you care about the way that all
- future POSIX APIs will be written I suggest you ballot
- this draft.
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- The sign-up form IEE sent out says to contact IEEE's Anna
- Kaczmarek at 908-562-1571 to get involved with this.
- (Don't get in touch with me; I'm just a civilian about
- this...)
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- For people unfamiliar with POSIX's new "Language Independent"
- movement, here's my heavily biased take: Bew POSIX APIs
- will not be C language APIs. They have to be written in
- new, invented programming language that is supposed to be
- easily translatable to Ada, or Fortran, or even C. API's
- written in this new, invented programming language are called
- "Language Independent APIs."
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- Each "Language Independent APIs" should come with translations
- to real programming languages (like C, Ada and Fortran). These
- translations are called "bindings." In order to find out what
- a given function is supposed to do, you'll need to read the
- Language Independent Spec to find out the basic functionality,
- and then read the language binding to find out the syntax and
- language specific functionality.
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- Bob Robillard, Technical Editor, 1003.7 Bellcore
- duke@cc.bellcore.com RRC 1D-229
- bcr!cupid!duke 444 Hoes Lane
- 908-699-2249, FAX: 908-336-2827 Piscataway, NJ 08854
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- Volume-Number: Volume 27, Number 89
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