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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a13657a6f67ac494,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-12 11:37:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: scallassig@mailexpire.com (Harald Korneliussen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Simple library functions Date: 12 Feb 2004 11:37:36 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <19401efb.0402121137.2a20b681@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.216.200.147 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1076614656 30473 127.0.0.1 (12 Feb 2004 19:37:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:37:36 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5496 Date: 2004-02-12T11:37:36-08:00 List-Id: I have been trying to solve some programming excercises from www.topcoder.com in Ada, just to compare it to Java and the other popular languages. One problem I keep running into is the lack of common, useful utilities in the libraries that come with Gnat & Ada. One thing is that I had to write my own tokenizer. That gave me the opporunity to emulate the String.split() method in newer versions of Java, OK*. But now I have to do an even simpler task, converting a string of digits to an integer, and as far as I can see there is no function for this in the standard libraries!? I hear there is a new revision of Ada coming. I really, really hope they adress the lack of a standard library of utillity packages instead of adding new language features. * Anyone want it? :-)