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,f51e93dacd9c7fca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-18 12:21:25 PST Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:28:41 +0800 From: Adrian Hoe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: status of Ada STL? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: mlk-197-136.tm.net.my X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: mlk-197-136.tm.net.my Message-ID: <3d0f0c40_1@news.tm.net.my> X-Trace: news.tm.net.my 1024396352 mlk-197-136.tm.net.my (18 Jun 2002 18:32:32 +0800) Organization: TMnet Malaysia Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.he.net!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!propagator-maxim!pull.newsgroups.com!news1.tm.net.my Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26286 Date: 2002-06-18T18:28:41+08:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > Libraries are a big deal. Not having one that is at least "Conventional" Ada > (heading towards "Standard" Ada - maybe) does start to make people consider > the leverage they get elsewhere. That's why I've suggested we need to get > *something* that is up and running & generally available and somehow or > other the "Conventional" thing. We can't wait 5 years for that to happen > either - so even a minimal library with some really basic stuff that could > easily be extended would be A Good Start. > > Its just real hard to get consensus on what the library should be and with > lack of direction/support from some of the more "Official" interests, its > hard to imagine how this could be speeded up. > > MDC > -- > Marin David Condic > Senior Software Engineer > Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com > Enabling the digital revolution > e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com > > > "Russ" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message > news:bebbba07.0206151051.1c25cf1e@posting.google.com... > >>The main objection is usually that Ada programmers are too hard to >>find. More recently, a top expert (a gcc maintainer) is claiming that >>the STL overcomes many of the objections to C++. If Ada doesn't soon >>have something comparable to STL that is reasonably stable and at >>least on track for standardization, it could be in trouble. >> >> > > > There are a lot of (re)usable Ada code (or libraries) out there already. Most can be easily extended. The question here is it necessary to make a library? And we have many Ada websites. Why not have these libraries and download location listed there? Just my 2cents. ;-) -- Remove *nospam* to email. -- Adrian Hoe -- http://adrianhoe.com