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From: Stefan Skoglund <stetson@ebox.tninet.se>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests]
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Robert S. White wrote:
> >That's silly. You can't call Starlet "extensions to Ada" any more than
> >you can call the Motif library "extensions to C". Its just a (big
> >honking) package someone wrote, in Ada.
> 
>   Exactly!

Can we agree on one thing ?
Every time someone uses a package provided by the vendor
they do so of their own volution ? ie if i need a LALR parser in
my program i probably picks up aflex ?

If someone is doing Ada with a VAX as target they could
very well use some package provided by Dec in their Ada offerings.

Every time someone decides that it is worthwhile using some package
from someone else and running the risk that that package could be
unavailable some day ie probably causing a re-write.

Like in the case there you go from VMS to UNIX to NT (maybe 2 rewrites
and maybe not.)

This is one of the differences between Freeware projects like
GNAT and vendor-specific products ie the customer is usually out on
a limb if the vendor decides to drop some product.