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,c56a86f3a4e16d06 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Containers with Ada Date: 2000/11/20 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 695948856 References: <8v8pii$dvo$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A19172D.ACCA08BB@earthlink.net> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: sjc-read.news.verio.net 974761867 206.184.139.136 (Mon, 20 Nov 2000 23:11:07 GMT) Organization: Verio MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 23:11:07 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 20 Nov 2000, Stephen Leake wrote: > Brian Rogoff writes: > > > > > > 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