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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-12 07:29:35 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Future with Ada Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:03:06 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9v7rjc$pfc$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9v57u1$mfb$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9v74ov014bc@drn.newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1008169388 26092 136.170.200.133 (12 Dec 2001 15:03:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Dec 2001 15:03:08 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17843 Date: 2001-12-12T15:03:08+00:00 List-Id: But a product like this would ultimately result in a bunch of standard packages - if it was designed right. You'd have various kinds of XML interpretation packages for GUI work and/or rendering of XML files. You'd have things like a "Document Object" or a "Spreadsheet Object", etc. All of those things would start to look like things in the Java libraries or similar language supplied utilities. I would agree that if Ada can figure out a way of including more libraries in a standard way that is portable across a number of platforms, it would be good for making the language more useful. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "rob@z" wrote in message news:9v74ov014bc@drn.newsguy.com... > > Put the effort into reusable standard packages. there are so many > areas where Ada has no standard packages to do things. Take Java > libraries as an example. >