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From: amir@iae.nsk.su (Amir Yantimirov)
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Subject: Problem space and solution space
Date: 27 May 2003 20:34:02 -0700
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"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com> wrote:
>I think my first deep insight into the implications of Ada
programming
>came in 1983, just after Ada 83 became an ANSI standard.  I told
someone
>working on our (Ada) compiler: "No, in Ada you model the problem
space,
>not the solution space."  I then excused myself for a minute to write
it
>on my office whiteboard.

Being in problem space is not always an advantage. Very often solution
space is magnitudes more stable and solid then continuously moving
problems. So "solution side" parts of problem-solution bridge became
more useful and reused.

The prime example of solution space thing is all sorts of
container/collections libraries, generic or common root ones. So the
lack of such standard libraries in Ada is a prooth of Ada's problem
orientiness. :))

Amir Yantimirov
http://www174.pair.com/yamir/programming/