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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5c4627b775acf6be X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Subject: Re: The Ada Scalar, Vector, Matrix and Tensor arithmetic library? Date: 1999/12/05 Message-ID: <82ea4f$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 557052756 References: <38497235.D8339C38@netwood.net> <82btoo$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> <82buhr$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu> <38498EB1.306427C8@netwood.net> <82c7mu$a2g1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <3849E314.6281FC6D@netwood.net> <82cors$9281@news.cis.okstate.edu> <82dk7t$5ka$1@birch.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <01bf3f36$43ebbd50$022a6282@dieppe> <384AA2F9.F5E30265@netwood.net> Organization: Oklahoma State University User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.7 (UNIX) Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Sun, 05 Dec 1999 17:38:01 +0000, E. Robert Tisdale wrote: >Competition benefits application programmers >only if library developers all support a standard API >and can substitute one implementation for another at any time. I disagree. One of the reasons to choose one library over the other is the API. The usual reason, in fact. Very rarely have I seen libraries compete with the same API - slang/ncurses, motif/lesstif are the exceptions. So, it seems to me, the standard API kills competetion in the library world. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org I see no trend at all, except toward women playing mean and ugly sociopaths who are good at killing and who enjoy dark powers. Maybe it's just my friends? -- Dr. Kromm, on who plays what type of character in RPGs