Re: FW: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?

["Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net>]

Craig Carey wrote:
 >                         If there is a rationale in words behind the
> idea "keep the ARM small" then do state that for me.

Why? Keeping the ARM small was a major design goal for Ada 9X, and you 
can either listen to the people who were involved, look at the Ada 9X 
requirements documents, or look at the minutes of the many meetings at 
which it was discussed.

This time around, keeping the revision small is one of the goals, but 
not keeping the ARM small as such.  So adding things to the standard 
needs to be well justified, but so does changing things, and so would 
removing something, like Ada.Strings.Bounded.

-- 
                                                     Robert I. Eachus

"Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the 
goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical, 
down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or 
down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair 
of an old motorcycle."  -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle 
Maintenance by Robert Pirsig