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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java
Date: 1999/02/09
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In article <36BF8648.EEBCACEF@linkline.com> "Fredric L. Rice" <frice@linkline.com> writes:

 > Do what C hackers did a decade ago:  Produce good libraries and post
 > them to the public domain.  Eventually a number of some of the more useful
 > library packages will be adopted by compiler manufacturers -- only done
 > up better (taking less resources) since same companies have acess to
 > engineering budgets.

   The Ada attitude is slightly different, but the long term result is
the same.  I wrote some packages which eventually became part of the
Ada standard (in particular the formatted output in Annex F and some
things in Annex A).  Others worked for years as members of the NUMWG
and NRG to provide standard packages for elementary complex functions
that are now part of the standard and so on.  I suspect that a
container library, a statistics library, and a windowing library will
be the next major additions.  (In fact I think it is about time to
create those working groups...)
--

					Robert I. Eachus

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