Re: Containers with Ada

[Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>]

On 20 Nov 2000, Stephen Leake wrote:
> Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes:
> > <snip>
> > 
> > Rather than telling other people what you'd rather they do, why
> > don't you just go do it yourself? If someone wants to create another
> > container library in Ada I say "more power to'em!". That ground
> > doesn't look old and tired to me.
> 
> Someone looking to create an Ada library should make an attempt to
> find out what's already been done. 

Obviously. Look at the first two sentences you snipped:

>> Maybe he doesn't like what's already out there, and thinks he can do
>> better. Maybe he doesn't like the licenses of the existing libraries. 

Now, jeltsch has posted a few more times and it's clear he hasn't looked 
at www.adapower.com (thank you David Botton, you are awesome!) to see what
else is available but I couldn't tell from the first post. 

> Then they can either just use it, or improve on it, 

If the license permits...

> or start from scratch. In any case, we'll all learn
> something (if they tell us :).

Yes, unfortunately it is hard to get useful feedback. 

So, how is SAL going? ;-)

-- Brian