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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Rant! (was) Development process in the Ada community
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"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
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> In article <3CB9375F.8040904@snafu.de>, Michael Erdmann
<Michael.Erdmann@snafu.de> writes:
>
> > This is exaclty the impression i have my self. So i was wondering
> > if Ada could take a new direction, when the open source communitiy is
> > more directly involved by establishing a public process in order
> > to enhance the predefined libraries, and may be later, to make an
> > attempt to get these things into ISO etc..
>
> Don't worry about getting it into the ISO standards, just get people
> using a common set of packages and the rest will follow.  There were
> recent efforts here in this newsgroup in the area of containers; you
> are free to choose a different venue.
>
> There is _nothing_ about the ISO process that is holding you back,
> and libraries/packages have little to do with core language changes.