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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d1584377f64645b4,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ehud Lamm Subject: Ada reusability (was: Expression Parser) Date: 1999/08/01 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 507563617 Organization: The hebrew University of Jerusalem Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ted correctly points out that Ada is much better suited for reuse than C, and that it encourages and supports portable code. This is all true. My point was simply to see how we can encourage even more reuse, and easier reuse for new comers to the language and community of Ada, by support outside the language itself (i.e, web sites, indexes etc.) - beacuse it seems from where I am looking that many newcomers find it difficult to find what they want (usually GUI builders but other things as well). One more, heretical, observation is that since the C culture approves of hacking and sharing boscure code which may indeed by highly non portable, even people with less time of capability can share their code. Sometimes this can help... This goes back to my original idea. But again, my main focus would be how to improve things, rather than just to debate philosophicaly. Kudos to all of you who contribute to this effort by sharing your code. (by the way, I hope to share my currently in the works frmaeworks which for example will support semi-AWK coding in Ada, etc. due date: unkown so far). Ehud Lamm mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ehudlamm <== My home on the web