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!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!bigfeed2.bellsouth.net!news.bellsouth.net!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <412202F8.50305@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> <4121F314.6080108@noplace.com> <4121fda9$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:07:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.22.172 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1092748029 209.165.22.172 (Tue, 17 Aug 2004 06:07:09 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 06:07:09 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2779 Date: 2004-08-17T13:07:09+00:00 List-Id: Martin Dowie wrote: > > > That is a possibility with the "IWA". It does /*NOT*/ make it part of > the standard but it could be used as a basis for inclusion. > That's good news. I think the key here is that Ada needs to be able to add new functionality at a faster rate than every ten years. Any scheme that helps do that would be a good thing so long as the vendors go along with it. > > Thanks, I did that myself - that's not part of the 'normal' AI > process :-) It's actually the text of the AI copied into the source > code (by hand!) and into "AdaBrowse" format (big "hello" to Thomas > Wolf!). > > If I get time I'll embed more examples from the AI or from elsewhere. > > Give some thought to some kind of "textbook" format. User's guides are nice if you already know basically how to use the library and just want to look up the specifics of what a call to some subroutine does. But something that addresses "What the heck to I *do* with this package???" might help people get started with it. You know: "Suppose you want to maintain a mailing list of people and search it based on last name..." Explaining how to do that with a container library and pointing at code or code snippets can be invaluable to a new user. MDC -- ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================