"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
>
> > Another one, not quite as effective, would be if those who have written
> > the current competing libraries agreed to do it - and to promote the
> > winning design in favor of their own old libraries.  If both the SAL,
> > Grace, LGL and PragmARC (as well as all the one I have forgotten)
> > web-sites promoted the winning design, it would be very likely that lazy
> > programmers like me switched.
>
> I guess I favor evolution, not revolution.  One of the nice features of
> having a registry like I proposed is that you would be able to easily
> mix components from multiple libraries without problems.  So I think
> that having ONE set of naming conventions and consistancy in hierarchies
> would be a big step forward.  If there is a "best of breed" selection
> process that results in some of these components being considered THE
> Ada library, and others considered older versions or alternatives we
> won't have thirty competing container libraries, but instead will have
> two or three good alternatives for a much wider set of capabilities.
>
> This is not to say that there won't eventually be one way to do some
> things, just that if we define a good process that will last for a
> decade or so, we will be much better off than with one more unmaintained
> library.
>
> -- 
>                                                      Robert I. Eachus
>
> "Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the
> goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical,
> down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or
> down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair
> of an old motorcycle."  -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
> Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
>
A big "I Agree to the whole contents of this message :-)

Even to your Quality is Buddha phrase ;-)
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St�phane Richard
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