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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,60dd4fe7723c0ef X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: Ada Core Technologies announces GNATCOM Date: 2000/04/10 Message-ID: <38F208F3.C14763DF@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 609104979 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8coc5e$do2$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <2000Apr9.073658.1@eisner> <38F0C28C.A9A80FCF@quadruscorp.com> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 10 Apr 2000 14:03:28 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-10T14:03:28+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "I'd trade it all for just a little more" -- Charles Montgomery Burns, [4F10] ======================================================================