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: 103376,88ed72d98e6b3457 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-06 06:33:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F816F2F.1010407@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest? References: <3F803278.1020507@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 13:33:50 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.26.175 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1065447230 209.165.26.175 (Mon, 06 Oct 2003 09:33:50 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 09:33:50 EDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:309 Date: 2003-10-06T13:33:50+00:00 List-Id: I appreciate that there are plans to include stuff in the standard. Are you going to provide a means by which it can be extended on a regular basis? I can keep coming up with good ideas. I might even be willing to help make them real. Is there a way to get them into most implementations (or even my *own* implementation? By which I mean I can extend the library with my own personal stuff) without waiting 10 years? Are they children of the package Ada - and hence I'm not allowed to modify or extend them in any way? (Or is that rule changing?) Is it going to be a "reference implementation" that is released regularly or is it "every vendor for himself?" Will it be in source code so I can modify it if I don't like what it does? There's more to it than simply saying "we're adding some stuff to the ARM..." I still think it is the entirely *wrong* answer to cast this stuff into the concrete of the ARM - at least on its first pass through. Let the ARM pick it up in the next revision if it proves stable. But get a process set up to have an extensible library that can react quickly outside the ARM. MDC Martin Dowie wrote: > "Marin David Condic" wrote in message > news:3F803278.1020507@noplace.com... > >>The short form from my response in the other thread... >> >>1) Containers (probably on the way within the standard, but possibly we >>might find some things not covered...) > > > AI-302 http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/AIs/AI-10302.TXT > > > >>2) Math/Statistics - Vectors, Matrices, Big number math, Symbolic >>algebra, Stats,.... > > > AI-294 http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/AIs/AI-00296.TXT > and http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/AIs/AI-00346.TXT > > > >>3) Related to Math: Encryption/Decryption, Compression/Decompression of >>streams. >> >>4) Control Laws operations > > > Nothing yet! > > >>5) OS Interfacing (including file formats) > > > AI-248 - http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/AIs/AI-00248.TXT > > > >>6) Internet communication protocols >> >>7) Database interface - or even a database itself. >> >>8) XML Document Object Model (one that uses tagged records, please.) > > > See APIWG http://www.acm.org/sigada/wg/apiwg/ > > > >>9) Desktop apps >> >>10) GUI interface > > > See - can't see these in any version of Ada > RM ever though > > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for." --Logan Pearsall Smith ======================================================================