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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,88ed72d98e6b3457 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-16 18:24:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!west.cox.net!east.cox.net!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Stephane Richard" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3F7F760E.2020901@comcast.net> <3F8035B0.7080902@noplace.com> <3F816A35.4030108@noplace.com> <3F81FBEC.9010103@noplace.com> <6Ingb.30667$541.13861@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> <3F82B4A4.5060301@noplace.com> <3F82F527.3020101@noplace.com> <3F846B5E.9080502@comcast.net> <3F855460.6020804@noplace.com> <3F86211B.103@comcast.net> <3F8640CA.6090306@noplace.com> <3F881515.4060305@noplace.com> <3F8E915C.6040003@noplace.com> <3F8F3986.7000107@comcast.net> Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 01:24:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.44.79.243 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1066353844 129.44.79.243 (Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:24:04 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:24:04 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1038 Date: 2003-10-17T01:24:04+00:00 List-Id: "Robert I. Eachus" wrote in message news:3F8F3986.7000107@comcast.net... > Stephane Richard wrote: > > > *** You sure seem to be, I am definitaly, Marin is too for a nominal fee > > ;-)....Robert seems to be interested too. I talked to a few people at APIWG > > and other SIG Ada Group members that like the idea (not sure how much time > > they could or would invest but they do think it's a good idea :-). > > I have probably spent more time talking here than I should, and less > time actually working on a library (or a registry). Getting the > concepts right, and the library design right is worth a lot of effort, > but too many decent efforts have died from too much discussion and not > enough commitment. (In the sense of putting something on the table and > either voting to accept it, or deciding how to improve it.) > -- > Robert I. Eachus > > "Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the > goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical, > down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or > down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair > of an old motorcycle." -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle > Maintenance by Robert Pirsig > You're right Robert. Absolutely Right. It's one of the reasons I create that hierarchy. To have something to start with...it's made to be deleted from, added to, rebranched, whatever it takes to get a basis of something we can all work on :-) -- St�phane Richard "Ada World" Webmaster http://www.adaworld.com