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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,88ed72d98e6b3457 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-21 15:46:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Stephane Richard" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3F7F760E.2020901@comcast.net> <3F8035B0.7080902@noplace.com> <3F816A35.4030108@noplace.com> <3F81FBEC.9010103@noplace.com> <6Ingb.30667$541.13861@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> <3F82B4A4.5060301@noplace.com> <3F82F527.3020101@noplace.com> <3F846B5E.9080502@comcast.net> <3F855460.6020804@noplace.com> <3F86211B.103@comcast.net> <3F8640CA.6090306@noplace.com> <3F881515.4060305@noplace.com> <3F8E915C.6040003@noplace.com> <3F8EDDB0.2020808@noplace.com> <3F904C7A.8050100@crs4.it> <3F941DE0.50906@comcast.net> Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:46:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.44.82.123 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1066776419 129.44.82.123 (Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:46:59 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:46:59 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1340 Date: 2003-10-21T22:46:59+00:00 List-Id: "Robert I. Eachus" wrote in message news:3F941DE0.50906@comcast.net... > 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 ;-) -- St�phane Richard "Ada World" Webmaster http://www.adaworld.com