Re: Ada2005 clear screen etc.

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

Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org> wrote in message
news:slrnb6c38v.4h4.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no...
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> As a external library. I don't see the need for it. I mean next will be
> that we should have some sort of GUI standard in the Ada standard.
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I agree that things like this should not be in the standard. It takes too
long to change the standard and libraries are too difficult for which to
build a verification suite. IMHO, the answer would be for the Powers That Be
(whoever is controlling the standard now plus some larger industrial users)
to establish a committee to build and maintain a library of "Conventional
Ada" utilities. Start with containers and move on to more specialized areas
like math packages, terminal I/O packages, GUIs, etc. If you had at least
*some* of the compiler vendors on board and some minimal amount of funding,
Ada could end up with some really large and useful libraries of code that
would offer leverage to developers and could react quickly to perceived
language needs.

MDC
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