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: 103376,54c513170bafd693 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: Desirability of C++ Date: 2000/05/05 Message-ID: <39130CFA.D7BAEDEF@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 619609435 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <390DEC7F.9429C82C@online.no> <390E2A20.B647D0D6@maths.unine.ch> <8em8mb$evd$1@wanadoo.fr> <390EEF24.BD36AA24@maths.unine.ch> <8eonmi$e4q$2@wanadoo.fr> <39103CBE.7D5B9F4E@quadruscorp.com> <39118BC4.4CC160DB@earthlink.net> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 5 May 2000 15:06:34 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-05T15:06:34+00:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus wrote: > So if you want a set of class libraries for Ada, work on one of the > existing libraries out there, write your own, or help to decide between > different approach so that there is an emerging consensus. If there is > a need and a consensus, then a standard can be initiated, whether as > part of the next revision of Ada, or as a separate effort. I just > happen to think that we are in the very early stages of that process > with respect to Ada class libraries. (Bindings to class libraries in > other languages is a very different animal, and one that I personally > don't find interesting.) Perhaps you missed my intention. I understand that the process is evolutionary and it takes lots of work to get something accepted as a standard. My point was to suggest that if there is to be a revision to Ada down the line, the mindset might be to deliberately search for libraries that might make good (if not perfect) additions as annexes. (Such as a statistics library? :-) Some people might be reluctant to extend the language in this way. I understand their point. Others (such as myself) might lean more in the other direction because of a belief that it would make the language more useful to have some standardized interfaces for various libraries defined. Maybe it doesn't need to start as an ISO standard, but it might eventually make its way there. Of course we attempted to do this in the recent past and the thing fell apart - probably because there were too many people involved to get a consensus going on what sorts of things should be in the libraries. Now if two or three folks got together and did the work, with a committee simply reviewing the end result, then something might get done. Maybe not perfectly, but perhaps Good Enough. 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] ======================================================================