Re: Ada Core Technologies announces GNATCOM

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>]

Brian Rogoff wrote:

> This doesn't need to be standardized by ISO. A few widely used and
> portable libraries would be good enough.
> 
Well, I'd like to see *some* standardization of the interfaces to any
package extensions to Ada. After all, C/C++ provides lots of
off-the-shelf utility code & other stuff that is fairly common to most
implementations. Some of it generated an Ada response (Ada.Strings comes
to mind) and I don't see what's wrong with specifying, for instance,
standard interfaces to various math libraries. Bindings to things might
be a problem because you can't control the other side of the binding,
but where we're talking utility code that is self-contained, it seems
like it would be useful to have the specs identical across all
implementations.

Of course it is very hard to get a general consensus going on what those
specs should be and what they should look like. I think that may have
been a problem with the Ada components working group. :-(

MDC
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