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 16:50:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F81FFC6.1060906@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> <3F81700B.1050701@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 23:50:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.24.173 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1065484246 209.165.24.173 (Mon, 06 Oct 2003 16:50:46 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 16:50:46 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:348 Date: 2003-10-06T23:50:46+00:00 List-Id: Great. I agree that existing packages might make a good place to start looking at things that should be there. It might even make a great place to start with a reference implementation. Two things: I'd like a standard, consistent, built-on-common-substrate, orthogonal library and grabbing a dozen different things off the Internet probably isn't going to do that. I'd also like to see you get some kind of acceptance by the folks that matter that they are going to use some stuff currently available off the Internet. Chances are they won't buy it. I'm not against existing software. I just think its hard to pull existing stuff together into a consistent library without significant rework and history tends to indicate that it won't get accepted. Solve those problems and you've got something there. MDC Preben Randhol wrote: > > > Sure, but I think that these are at least starting points. I don't see > the reason for rewriting a lot of software just for the exercise if one > can adopt already existing software and mould it into what one wants. > > At any rate the GNAT stuff is more or less standard for me. > > Preben -- ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================