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: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-11 18:35:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!pln-e!spln!dex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!drn From: mitch@NOSPAM Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: why not "standardize" the Booch Components? (was Re: is Ada dying?) Date: 11 Oct 2001 18:05:24 -0700 Organization: Newsguy News Service [http://newsguy.com] Message-ID: <9q5fkk0ra0@drn.newsguy.com> References: <3BC30674.BA88AAB6@brighton.ac.uk> <9pvv3t$ves$1@news.huji.ac.il> <9q49fc$nh3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9q4s5v$2j4$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9q534p$5cg$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: p-626.newsdawg.com X-Newsreader: Direct Read News 2.90 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14354 Date: 2001-10-11T18:05:24-07:00 List-Id: In article <9q534p$5cg$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin says... > > >As an ACM/SIGAda member, I'd think this organization would be the proper >forum for developing a usable component library (out of existing parts or >from bottom-dead-center). Oh no, not another design by a committe thing. This just reinforces the view that Ada was indeed designed by a committe. The Java collection was designed by one guy at Sun. No committe was needed to all agree on everything. C++ templates was also designed by one guy. I think software that is designed by one or at most 2 people, is in general better than software designed by a large group of people. May be 20 years from now Ada will have a standard library for collections, but I won't hold my breath :)