From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4121F314.6080108@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <4121E4B4.5080609@noplace.com> <4121ebcf$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:59:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.22.172 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1092743959 209.165.22.172 (Tue, 17 Aug 2004 04:59:19 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 04:59:19 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2773 Date: 2004-08-17T11:59:19+00:00 List-Id: 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 > > > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for." --Logan Pearsall Smith ======================================================================