why not "standardize" the Booch Components? (was Re: is Ada dying?)

["Pat Rogers" <progers@classwide.com>]

"Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il> wrote in message
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> I think that adding Collections to the standard library would be a big
help.
> I find it sad that when I want to explain what Collections are, I print
> stuff from the Java docs ;-(

This is an issue that has troubled me for some time.

Many of us have developed libraries of reusable components over the years.
It is a great way to learn a language.  We all have things we like about
them.  Some are extensive and well done.  However, we would all clearly
benefit by agreeing to make one of them the de facto standard.  (Formal
standardization is desirable too, IMHO.)

I propose the Booch Components be that standard.  If there is a better suite
I haven't seen it and I've seen many of them.  However, there may very well
be a better collection of components.  Let's discuss them.

Whatever we choose, an incomplete list of steps required include:

    Start using them instead of our individual in-house favorites.  That's
the hard part.

    Have a community-wide decision to adopt them, so that the above can
happen.  Unless a significant number of people publicly agree to adopt them
there will be few individuals willing to make the change.


Thoughts?

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