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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: backlog3.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!border1.nntp.hkg.giganews.com!news.netfront.net!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 16:30:08 -0700 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net; news.eternal-september.org Message-ID: References: <72b1318a-2eb6-4129-af9b-5bcfbb329c5b@googlegroups.com> <3dcb7839-3003-4fcd-afb6-3369f715102b@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 23:30:10 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ba346f17b503f6aa8ecbfd6d1e2a9f59"; logging-data="29205"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ZvNI2S++NAJPY5W9wN3d8ysHiuZ9tTLQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q+Yr037nTyTvmxXmfXKSF9oOYqM= Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:187469 Date: 2014-07-08T16:30:08-07:00 List-Id: On 07/08/2014 04:03 PM, sbelmont700@gmail.com wrote: > > FWIW, a focus on generics and creating *isolated* reusable components would > be a good focus area for research, because currently it's essentially > impossible. That's right. None of the 42 generics in the PragmAda Reusable Components, the 384 generics in GTKAda, or the 1594 generics supplied with gcc-4.6 GNAT exist or do anything useful. -- Jeff Carter "Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?" Horse Feathers 49