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: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-11 09:22:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!207.115.63.138!newscon04.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr11.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Pat Rogers" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3BC30674.BA88AAB6@brighton.ac.uk> <9pvv3t$ves$1@news.huji.ac.il> <9q49fc$nh3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9q4dnk017fg@drn.newsguy.com> <9q4fr6$qj5$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: why not "standardize" the Booch Components? (was Re: is Ada dying?) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.191.176.121 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr11.news.prodigy.com 1002815814 ST000 208.191.176.121 (Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:56:54 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:56:54 EDT Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com X-UserInfo1: OP]QRACE[BWMQ_H]]ZN@_TDAYZOZ@GXOXB_J]Q]KEYUNDQUCCNSUAACY@L[ZX__HGFD]JBJNSFXTOOGA_VWY^_HG@FW_HUTHOH]TBPGCO\P^PLP^@[GLHUK@WLECKFVL^TYG[@RMWQXIWM[SDDYWNLG_G[_BWUCHFY_Y@AS@Q[B\APPF@DCZM_PG_VSCPQZM Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:56:54 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14289 Date: 2001-10-11T15:56:54+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:9q4fr6$qj5$1@nh.pace.co.uk... > I was thinking along the lines where there were some sort of hypertext > document that let you click on a package name & get a description of what it > does, how to use it (in a general sense) and see links to documentation to > specific subprograms, etc. Something that could be used as a reference & > user's manual for this specific implementation of the Booch Components. Sounds good. > I don't think that Grady Booch's original book documents this specific > realization of the components since the book came first. (IOW, names may > have changed some, features added, etc. You really need a document that is > updated as the code changes over time.) The Ada 95 version has a very different design. It is more like the C++ version. One of the things that always galled me was that the C++ bigots derided Ada by claiming that the C++ version was so much better (smaller, etc.) because C++ was a better language -- when in fact it had a different architecture (based in part on lessons learned from the Ada83 version).