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,effb80d4bb7716dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future Date: 1999/02/01 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 439421638 References: <790f4q$3l@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: nntp1.ba.best.com 917889871 16672 bpr@206.184.139.136 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 31 Jan 1999, Alexy V Khrabrov wrote: > Greetings -- > > I'm assembling a case for Ada for teaching at the University of Pennsylvania > in Philadelphia. I compare Ada to Java, currently used here as the main > vehicle for teaching various programming disciplines. Ben and Mike already > provided helpful presentation support, and Tuck promised to share his > theoretical and empirical knowledge of Ada versus Java in > cross-implementation and action. Now, I'd like to ask all of you to > evaluate the status of reusable software for Ada, and first and foremost, an > analog of a standard library with basic data structures. The main reference > point is C++ STL. I'm very concerned there's nothing near in Ada. And yet > the main purpose of Ada is to facilitate software reuse! I started writing such a library a while ago, based on an earlier library from RPI. I haven't been updating it much since I don't use Ada at work and I currently have little free time. I'll fix problems and update the library at the current glacial pace. If you want to contribute code that would be great too. http://www.best.com/~bpr/agl.html I disagree with the opinion expressed by others replying that an STL like library is an inappropriate map to Ada 95, and haven't heard a reasoned argument for this assessment. I think Ada 95 is in some ways better than C++ for this, in particular the style of connecting packages together enabled by generic formal package parameters and null bodied generic signature packages makes the structure of the library quite clear. -- Brian