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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/02/06 Message-ID: <79grbs$d5u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 441286046 References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369DDDC3.FDE09999@sea.ericsson.se> <369e309a.32671759@news.demon.co.uk> <77ledn$eu7$1@remarQ.com> <77pnqc$cgi$1@newnews.global.net.uk> <8p64spq5lo5.fsf@Eng.Sun.COM> <77t3ld$nou$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79ce4s$lfq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79chc7$ko6@drn.newsguy.com> <79dodb$rhf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79fm3e$ffs$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79fnce$iv8@drn.newsguy.com> X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x16.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Feb 06 07:35:25 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java Date: 1999-02-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <79fnce$iv8@drn.newsguy.com>, mike wrote: > I think this could be solved by having a standard Ada > library be part of the "language" in the same sense that > C++ standard library is part of "C++" . Well of course Ada 95 *does* have a standard library, see annex A of the RM. Now it is true that it is less extensive than the C++ standard library, but there is no obvious principle that more is more here. In fact Annex A represents exactly what the designers of Ada felt was appropriate to standardize. For example, should a sort routine be standardized? Probably not, there are so many different algorithms, and different algorithms are appropriate for different purposes, and this very much seems to me to be the sort of thing that is better handled by external libraries (which could of course be standardized if that seemed desirable). -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own