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: 103376,29850945228df59 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-18 04:30:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!elnk-nf1-atl!newsfeed.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: Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector and GNAT Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 07:30:36 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3EF04D5C.1040706@noplace.com> References: <1316747.mXveBPtf0Z@linux1.krischik.com> <3EEF616C.1080204@noplace.com> <3EEF7FA4.1020500@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b6.b0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 18 Jun 2003 11:30:42 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:39385 Date: 2003-06-18T11:30:42+00:00 List-Id: I looked at the website briefly and am not sure what you mean in this context. This appears to be a text editor similar to VI. Are you suggesting the project as a model of how to collectively develop an Ada library or does it have some collection of useful software tools? My thinking is that Ada could benefit from having a library similar to Java or the MFC - only perhaps bigger and better. (Much of the MFC, for example, is dedicated to filling in weaknesses within C++ that Ada doesn't share, so Ada could spend more time on other matters.) We've talked container libraries here before and that may make it into the standard - but I've expressed my doubts as to the wisdom of expecting the standard to react to every need. I'd like to see a "standard" library that went well beyond just containers. But it takes some willingness on the part of the whole community to buy into one particular library as "The Library" and I don't see that happening at the moment. MDC Preben Randhol wrote: > > Something like the vim repository perhaps? => http://vim.sf.net/ > -- ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================