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: 103376,88ed72d98e6b3457 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-20 10:40:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc53.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F941DE0.50906@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: 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> <3F846B5E.9080502@comcast.net> <3F855460.6020804@noplace.com> <3F86211B.103@comcast.net> <3F8640CA.6090306@noplace.com> <3F881515.4060305@noplace.com> <3F8E915C.6040003@noplace.com> <3F8EDDB0.2020808@noplace.com> <3F904C7A.8050100@crs4.it> 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: rwcrnsc53 1066671612 24.34.139.183 (Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:40:12 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:40:12 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:40:12 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1214 Date: 2003-10-20T17:40:12+00:00 List-Id: Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: > Another one, not quite as effective, would be if those who have written > the current competing libraries agreed to do it - and to promote the > winning design in favor of their own old libraries. If both the SAL, > Grace, LGL and PragmARC (as well as all the one I have forgotten) > web-sites promoted the winning design, it would be very likely that lazy > programmers like me switched. I guess I favor evolution, not revolution. One of the nice features of having a registry like I proposed is that you would be able to easily mix components from multiple libraries without problems. So I think that having ONE set of naming conventions and consistancy in hierarchies would be a big step forward. If there is a "best of breed" selection process that results in some of these components being considered THE Ada library, and others considered older versions or alternatives we won't have thirty competing container libraries, but instead will have two or three good alternatives for a much wider set of capabilities. This is not to say that there won't eventually be one way to do some things, just that if we define a good process that will last for a decade or so, we will be much better off than with one more unmaintained library. -- 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