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From: Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>
To: Jerry van Dijk <jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl>
Subject: Re: Wanted: Ada STL.  Reward: Ada's Future
Date: 1999/02/01
Date: 1999-02-01T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36B5C8B5.442494A6@pwfl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: F6GxAr.5q@jvdsys.stuyts.nl

Jerry van Dijk wrote:
> Well, it do not think anyone is stopping you to write an STL equivalent in
> Ada. Maybe it has not been done yet because most people, like myself, already
> have a directory full of standard components, which we have been using for
> years, and know and trust.
> 
I've evolved a number of similar tools myself. Our group makes an effort
to take anything that is general in nature and keep it in reuse
libraries. Problem #1: You don't always know what is in the reuse
library because it is a) undocumented and/or b) too large to effectively
search.

What would be nice is to have an appendix to the ARM that described
package specifications for various common data structures, etc. We have
it for Strings and various math functions, but why not some of the
garden variety data structures? (you'd need several flavors of these for
different requirements, much like there are three flavors of strings
supported.) The appendix could be optional since not all targets would
be interested in it. But at least with a written down specification of
what the packages should look like and what the behavior of the
operations should be, I could implement my own if necessary and be
asured that the usage would be portable and comprehensible to other Ada
programmers. Having it written down in an agreed-upon standard would be
a major advantage for reusability.

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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  reply	other threads:[~1999-02-01  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-01-31  0:00 Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future Alexy V Khrabrov
1999-01-31  0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-02-01  0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-01  0:00   ` Ehud Lamm
1999-02-02  0:00     ` Richard D Riehle
1999-02-03  0:00       ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02  0:00     ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-02  0:00       ` robert_dewar
1999-02-04  0:00         ` Ehud Lamm
1999-02-03  0:00       ` John English
1999-02-03  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-03  0:00           ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-04  0:00             ` Stephen Leake
1999-02-04  0:00               ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-05  0:00                 ` Stephen Leake
1999-02-05  0:00                   ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-04  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-04  0:00               ` Hyman Rosen
1999-02-05  0:00                 ` Stephen Leake
1999-02-05  0:00                   ` Hyman Rosen
1999-02-05  0:00               ` John English
1999-02-05  0:00                 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-06  0:00                   ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-05  0:00                 ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-05  0:00                   ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-05  0:00                   ` Richard D Riehle
1999-02-05  0:00           ` John English
1999-02-05  0:00           ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-04  0:00         ` Ehud Lamm
1999-02-04  0:00           ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-05  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-05  0:00               ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-08  0:00                 ` John English
1999-02-04  0:00           ` Al Christians
1999-02-04  0:00           ` Pat Rogers
1999-02-04  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-04  0:00               ` Pat Rogers
1999-02-04  0:00                 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-05  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-05  0:00                     ` Tom Moran
1999-02-05  0:00                       ` dewar
1999-02-05  0:00                         ` Tom Moran
1999-02-05  0:00                           ` dewar
1999-02-05  0:00                             ` dennison
1999-02-06  0:00                               ` dewar
1999-02-08  0:00                                 ` dennison
1999-02-08  0:00                                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-08  0:00                                     ` dennison
1999-02-09  0:00                                       ` robert_dewar
1999-02-09  0:00                                         ` dennison
1999-02-09  0:00                                     ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-07  0:00                               ` Simon Wright
1999-02-08  0:00                               ` Corey Minyard
1999-02-08  0:00                                 ` Open Source Licensing (was: Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future) dennison
1999-02-08  0:00                                   ` Corey Minyard
1999-02-09  0:00                                     ` dennison
1999-02-09  0:00                                       ` Corey Minyard
1999-02-09  0:00                                     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-09  0:00                                       ` Corey Minyard
1999-02-09  0:00                                 ` Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future robert_dewar
1999-02-09  0:00                                   ` dennison
1999-02-10  0:00                                     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-07  0:00                           ` Simon Wright
1999-02-05  0:00                     ` Larry Kilgallen
     [not found]                     ` <36ba730b.35540068@ <79fmg1$fn0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
1999-02-06  0:00                       ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-05  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-05  0:00               ` robert_dewar
1999-02-05  0:00                 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-05  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-05  0:00                     ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-05  0:00                     ` dennison
1999-02-05  0:00                       ` robert_dewar
1999-02-05  0:00                         ` dennison
1999-02-06  0:00                       ` Nick Roberts
     [not found]                     ` <79f24e$t14 <36BB4162.52FC6D9F@averstar.com>
1999-02-05  0:00                       ` robert_dewar
1999-02-05  0:00                       ` dennison
1999-02-05  0:00           ` John English
1999-02-09  0:00             ` micro_ada
1999-02-05  0:00         ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-08  0:00           ` John English
1999-02-02  0:00     ` Pointer Arithmetic (was: Wanted: Ada STL....) adam
1999-02-02  0:00       ` William Clodius
1999-02-03  0:00         ` adam
1999-02-03  0:00           ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-03  0:00           ` William Clodius
1999-02-03  0:00           ` robert_dewar
1999-02-03  0:00             ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-03  0:00       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-03  0:00         ` robert_dewar
1999-02-03  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-03  0:00       ` robert_dewar
1999-02-01  0:00 ` Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01  0:00   ` Alexy V Khrabrov
1999-02-01  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01  0:00       ` Jeff Carter
1999-02-01  0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-02-01  0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-01  0:00   ` Marin David Condic [this message]
1999-02-01  0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-01  0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1999-02-08  0:00   ` Michael F Brenner
1999-02-05  0:00 ` Corey Minyard
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