Re: Image attribute (yet again)

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 27/04/2020 à 14:50, Jere a écrit :
> Conceptionally that makes sense.  I do wish they had followed other
> languages in at least providing some of the basic formatting options
> for stuff like this.  Even if it was a different package (String_IO?).

There are plenty of packages that you can download that provide very
useful stuff. The difference with other languages is that Ada people
disregard anything which is not blessed by the standard. Many other
in-fashion languages have not standard at all, so users consider that
anything on the web is "available for the language".

If you look at any of the sites that provide Ada resources links, you'll
see that Ada's situation is not that bad...

Talking about reuse vs. redesign, I recommend the paper "What price
reusability", old but fortunately available from ACM:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/112629.112643

It compares the cost of rewriting with the cost of searching for
something already available, and the number of reuses necessary to break
even. It shows that for simple things (like the one we discussed above),
rewriting can be more cost-effective than searching the web for existing
stuff...

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