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,f1a4cf648f2724ee X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-23 19:35:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed-west.nntpserver.com!hub1.meganetnews.com!nntpserver.com!203.109.225.2!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!cox.net!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CEDA711.5040303@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ARG asks Ada Community for API Proposals. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 02:35:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1022207753 68.12.51.201 (Thu, 23 May 2002 22:35:53 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 22:35:53 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24618 Date: 2002-05-24T02:35:53+00:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt wrote: > Ada. The ARG has begun work on the next revision of Ada, planned for > 2005. As part of this revision, there has been a lot of interest in the > Ada community for the standardization of reusable components and APIs to > existing services. ... > The ARG will evaluate these proposals using a variety of criteria. For a > more detailed version of this announcement, including a (partial) list > of evaluation criteria, please see > http://www.adaic.org/news/call4apis.html. I notice from the website that the critera seem to be stilted towards existing libraries like Booch. Anything from the Grace project would have trouble competing due to two factors: 1) Its new. The critera prefer stuff that's been used for a while. 2) Functionality. Grace has as a goal to try to balance power-user functionality with beginner (eg: CS1 and 2) ease-of-use. The critera appear to select only for functionality. Not that I have a big problem with this. I've said all along I'd prefer to see Booch in the standard. :-)