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From: Michael Erdmann <Michael.Erdmann@snafu.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 13:50:15 +0200
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Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Michael Erdmann <Michael.Erdmann@snafu.de> wrote:
> 
> : And i am wondering if there could be a processed
> : established which brings these things back into the
> : standard in order to avoid the reinvention of
> : state of the art components.
> 
> Monoism isn't compatible with reality I think, starting

You are right, but i think you have to admind, that the
discussion about the best linked list implementation is
simply not state of the art any more. There should be
a standard list and container concept available for
Ada. Thinking about such components is a wate of time
because as you say theory and implementation are
exisiting. It should find its into the Ada 95 standard.

I think this applies also to other more or less stable
areas like sockets, http protocol etc.

I have to admid GUI's are a bad example because they
are extremly dependant on the perception of a
community. For example compare Windows/Gtk and
the GUI of squeck. They are complelty different
and everybody is happy with it.

What i am targeting for is to get some of the established
technologies into the Ada standard and at the same
time to establish a process which ensures that in the
future other stable interfaces will be added to the
standard.

Regards
    M.Erdmann