Re: Please list all the Ada libraries you know

[Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>]

On 13-03-06 19:08 , Adam Beneschan wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 10:15:56 PM UTC-8, J-P. Rosen wrote:
>> Le 04/03/2013 21:43, Adam Beneschan a �crit :
>>
>>> Well, no, you don't "need" one.  Once you know what directory you're
>>> looking in, it's not all that difficult to look for any file whose
>>> name matches what you're looking for without regard to letter case.
>>
>> Sure. But that means doing a full directory search any time you refer to
>> a unit (just to check if by chance there is another file with the same
>> name and different casing) => a lot of disk access, and considering the
>> ratio of disk speed to memory speed nowadays, this is likely to have a
>> very sensible effect on speed for a very minor (IMHO) nuisance.
> 
> If you're trying to say "big enough that one can sense it"
> "sensible" isn't the right word--it means something totally
> different.

Dictionaries disagree. Wiktionary
(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sensible) has its two first meanings
agreeing with J-P's usage:

1. (now dated or formal) Perceptible by the senses.
2. Easily perceived; appreciable.

The Oxford Concise Dictionary (1950 edition) has the same (1), without
tagging it dated.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English (1974 edition)
has "good sense" or "reasonable" as the first meaning, but "can be
perceived by the senses" as the third meaning, without tagging this
meaning dated.

So "sensible" has multiple meanings.

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Niklas Holsti
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