Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Looks like good work & hopefully something that will be built upon & 
extended to include new capabilities. I suspect that Ada0Y is not going 
to allow the garden variety programmer to extend packages under the 
"Ada..." tree, so it is hard to imagine "growth" without some sort of 
agreed upon support from the compiler vendors. Still, one could imagine 
work being done under a different, independent branch with the 
possibility that in "Ada1Z" a given branch might be drawn into the 
standard if it proves to be something generally useful, standardizable 
and portable to a variety of implementations.

I still think there is good reason to have some kind of "supplimental 
standard" library that exists as a reference implementation that is 
allowed to grow & change at a faster rate than updates to the Ada 
standard allow - but its looking like there is at least a good start in 
that general direction...

BTW: I like the fact that there is an HTML "user's manual" written up 
for it. Hopefully, there might evolve from that some sort of "Ada 
Library Usage For Smart People (because the "dummies" are using C)" 
book. Its wonderful to have a user's manual that lays out what each 
operation does, but an example guide with practical applications can be 
a real plus for actually getting people to use it.

MDC


Martin Dowie wrote:
> 
> And the need for doing this deminishes further with the inclusion of
> standard containers, see http://www.martin.dowie.btinternet.co.uk/ for an
> Ada95 implementation of the proposed new Ada0Y container libraries - there
> are (doubly linked) lists, vectors, (ordered) sets and (hashed) maps.
> Indefinate versions of each are available too.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- Martin
> 
> 
> 


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