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: 103376,1dd28d5040ded1f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-16 06:43:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Announce: Grace project site operational Date: 16 May 2002 06:43:09 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0205160543.34b32481@posting.google.com> References: <4519e058.0205150657.3b695758@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1021556589 19213 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2002 13:43:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 May 2002 13:43:09 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24189 Date: 2002-05-16T13:43:09+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:... > So it's a Bad Idea to try to make one units package for all the world > to use, but reasonable ones for reasonable subsets of the world may still > be a Good Idea. Possibly. But if you are talking about subsets for certain jobs, you are no longer talking about a general-purpose package, which means you are also no longer talking about Grace. > ... Should a single program actually deal with some distances > in meters, some in centimeters, and some in kilometers, or miles? Given Typically not. But a general SI package would have to support all of them, because some users might need meters (flight sims) while others might need kilometers (space probes). -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html (down)