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: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-28 05:30:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 08:19:24 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3ED4A94C.2020501@noplace.com> References: <6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b4.6e Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 28 May 2003 12:19:27 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37899 Date: 2003-05-28T12:19:27+00:00 List-Id: I think a standard Ada sockets package would be A Good Thing. So would something like an XML parser be a good thing. (Make it use the OO features Ada has so that it closely matches the XML standard. This is the only thing I don't like about the XMLAda package currently floating about - it uses discriminated records instead of tagged records, which would be the natural way to express what is in the XML standard.) This is another case where having some sort of Conventional Ada Library external of the standard would be A Good Thing. Get things like this into the library quickly, gain some experience with use and when they stabilize discuss the possibility of including them into the standard. MDC chris.danx wrote: > Preben Randhol wrote: > >> >> What about sockets? > > > Yep, sockets! Also what about XML parsing facilities and better unicode > support? They'd just be nice, but sockets would be great. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================