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: 2003-10-11 07:22:45 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F881231.3000300@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: <3F7F760E.2020901@comcast.net> <3F8035B0.7080902@noplace.com> <3F816A35.4030108@noplace.com> <3F81FBEC.9010103@noplace.com> <6Ingb.30667$541.13861@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> <3F82B4A4.5060301@noplace.com> <3F82F527.3020101@noplace.com> <3F836447.1000800@noplace.com> <8746564.sTh3EHsOBI@linux1.krischik.com> <3F8637C8.3020201@noplace.com> <1432352.H7KnUpQB8m@linux1.krischik.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:22:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.2.136 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1065882164 209.165.2.136 (Sat, 11 Oct 2003 10:22:44 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 10:22:44 EDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:665 Date: 2003-10-11T14:22:44+00:00 List-Id: First off, if you start with a sow's ear, you'll never get a silk purse. Cobbling something together from random bits of code collected from the internet is never going to get you a well-integrated, cvonsistent library. It is, and always will be, a bunch of disjointed parts that don't have anything to do with each other - except possibly that you got them all off the same disk. Second off, this random collection of code has been on the Internet for years. Nobody has adopted it as a "Standard Library" despite its availability. Why is that? Could it be that there might be good reasons not to? I think there are good reasons not to. Anyway, *IF* there was a general will to have a Conventional Ada Library and the vendors got on board with that, I don't think that implementation from the ground-up would be that much of a problem. Once you've laid the founation, you could start looking at things that came from assorted existing libraries and see if they could be adapted. That might be possible - but you need the foundation first. MDC Martin Krischik wrote: > > True. But It could be a starting point. You have to start somewhere or give > up and return to using C++. > > With Regards > > Martin > -- ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================