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: 103376,71c743c03ed191fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-24 10:06:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!torn!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D90991E.9040205@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Beginer problem: variable array size References: <38993b18.0209191906.b56b982@posting.google.com> <3D8B4CC9.5020202@cogeco.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:55:58 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1032886559 198.96.47.195 (Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:55:59 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:55:59 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29313 Date: 2002-09-24T12:55:58-04:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: ... > If eventually something gets into the ARM as a standard library, that's > great. But I think it would be better to get something general-purpose > accepted as a semi-standard in a faster and more flexible manner. Get a > container library out there that is generally accepted as the official Ada > library and start experimenting with it. In a year or so, you'll know what > its weaknesses are and another cut can be made at it. Soon enough you'll > have a stable version that may satisfy 80% of the user's needs. I agree, though I admit that I am biased (for the general purpose use). I know this has been discussed before (but perhaps not enough), doesn't the Booch components more or less fit this "first stage"? From my point of view, the # 1 disadvantage of the booch components is just getting them properly instatiated. Apart from realtime issues, what other issues exist? -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg