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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-29 08:52:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news2.e.nsc.no.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com> <3ED4A94C.2020501@noplace.com> <3ed4c9a2@news.wineasy.se> <3ED4F77F.5060809@noplace.com> Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.67.226.18 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@telenor.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 17:52:19 MEST X-Trace: news2.ulv.nextra.no 1054223540 130.67.226.18 Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 17:52:00 +0200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38000 Date: 2003-05-29T17:52:00+02:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > I have suggested that the vested interests in Ada (compiler vendors, > SIGAda and any big-time users) charter some group to come up with a > library that would be agreed upon as "The Conventional Ada Library" and > make a reference implementation to be distributed with all compilers. It > would need to be easily updated and should cover a wide range of > interests (Data structures, networking, OS interfacing, math, business, > graphics, GUIs, whatever. Its easy to make a list and prioritize.) That is a perfectly good plan. BTW I think that the idea proposed by Tucker Taft in a presentation on concentrating on developing the language as a server programming language is an excellent idea. It should be easier to get a concensus on what is needed. > So > far, aside from a few fellow zealots and gadflies, there doesn't seem to > be much noise comimg from the players who would matter. Hence, I assume > that without much interest or support from the key participants, Ada > will continue to lack a "Conventional Ada Library" for some time to come > and numerous projects will continue to go to Java and MSVC++. That is what landed Ada95 in trouble as far as popularity is concerned last time. greetings,