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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8eff44ec1bcf8433 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-23 14:27:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!falcon.america.net!eagle.america.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BD5E0CC.306FB227@otelco.net> From: Larry Hazel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,x-ns11F8K63r3NhQ,x-ns2r2e09OnmPe2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Container reqs References: <9qctpn$lil$1@news.huji.ac.il> <3BCA86C7.BB252751@acm.org> <%jYy7.31350$ev2.37672@www.newsranger.com> <3BCD7C50.647ADBD0@brighton.ac.uk> <9qk44b$utk$1@news.huji.ac.il> <3BD527A8.93C1F68B@brighton.ac.uk> <9r3umu$hvo$1@news.huji.ac.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:27:40 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.0.32.230 X-Trace: eagle.america.net 1003872426 66.0.32.230 (Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:27:06 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:27:06 EDT Organization: 24hoursupport.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15103 Date: 2001-10-23T16:27:40-05:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > In article , Stephen Leake says... > > > >I think we can all agree that a library intended to be used as a > >teaching example might be simpler than a library intended to be used > >in general. > > Yes, but now we are talking about having multiple different libraries. That is > the exact situation we have now that everyone is decrying. > So, we can have a general purpose library and just expose the students to parts of it (or pre-instantiated parts of it). Larry