Re: Containers with Ada

["Marc A. Criley" <mcquad@earthlink.net>]

Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes:

> <snip>
>
> Rather than telling other people what you'd rather they do, why
> don't you just go do it yourself?

Uhhh..I do.  I'm also happy to assist anyone who may need some Ada
advice pertaining to whatever it is they may be working on, whether in
this forum, gnatlist, or gnat chat (if that somehow gets reformulated
back into a public forum).

> If someone wants to create another
> container library in Ada I say "more power to'em!". That ground
> doesn't look old and tired to me.

I guess the problem is that having worked with Ada for over 15 years, I
can write container packages in my sleep, but I don't bother since
there's a score of variations to pick from.  If someone's undertaking
such an effort to aid their learning of Ada, then yes, "more power to
them!"  But otherwise, do something new!

I've been working a lot with ASIS (Ada Semantic Information
Specification) lately, and if one wants to stay within pure Ada, and is
interested in developing development and analysis tools, aids for doing
ASIS development would be incredibly welcome.

Marc A. Criley
Senior Staff Engineer
Quadrus Corporation