Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

If that's all I wanted, I don't even need to wait 5 minutes. There are
dozens of component libraries out there for the cost of a download. I've got
my own personal component library right here that I wrote myself. Component
libraries are not the problem. The problem is a "Standard" component library
that just plain comes with any given Ada compiler by default. The weakness
of non-standard libraries is not that they don't work well or won't get a
job done, but rather that each one is different (user's can't move from one
project to another and be sure of having the same tools) and none of them
are just there to use without any special effort. (You need to go out and
select one of your own choosing that is, by definition, not part of Ada.
"See??? Ada is not as good as C++ because C++ comes with a component library
and Ada doesn't!!!" :-)

MDC
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Ingo Marks <nospam_adv@region-nord.de> wrote in message
news:athli4$93i$06$1@news.t-online.com...
> Marin David Condic wrote:
>
> > Maybe we should try to get containers into the standard five years
> > from now....." Sounds to me like a recepie for too little too late.
>
> I think you don't need to wait five years. There are some efforts on the
> way already. Look at
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/Grace/Grace_Home.html
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/grace/
>
> Regards,
> Ingo
>