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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5f7230830b229a11 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-08 11:06:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F8451F7.1050401@comcast.net> From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: FW: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.139.183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net 1065636367 24.34.139.183 (Wed, 08 Oct 2003 18:06:07 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 18:06:07 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 18:06:07 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:487 Date: 2003-10-08T18:06:07+00:00 List-Id: 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