Re: ASCL a doomed idea?

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

The important thing won't be some specific phraseology or word-science - it
will be if there is some reasonable level of functionality available. While
it is interesting that strings have some similarity to lists, what is
probably more important is that there be similar operations and nomenclature
with Ada.Strings.* because this will help the programmer transition from one
to the other. The rest is window dressing.

I'm glad that we seem to have made some really good progress on agreeing on
a lot of what needs to be in a list package. If we stay focused on getting a
solution together, I think this could be done in some reasonably short time.
We're better off leaving the nit-picking to academic critics who can tell us
later how badly we botched up the Grand Linked List Theory. :-) In the mean
time, there will be a functioning library in use by thousands (we hope!)

MDC
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"Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@adaos.worldonline.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> I'm not talking about somebody's esoteric academic definition of a list,
I'm
> talking about ordinary everyday people's idea of a list. Most Ada
> programmers are ordinary everyday people, and it is those programmers whom
I
> am considering when choosing names for the types and subprograms.
>