Re: Ada2005 clear screen etc.

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

Larry Kilgallen <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
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> Because the Ada standard should be for things that require support from
> the compiler vendor.
>
> There should be a body of widely used libraries that can be augmented on
> a more frequent basis than the cycle for the language standard, but we
> will never get there so long as people insist on shoving everything into
> the language standard.

Absolutely. If we had a committee that built and maintained a library of
utility code as a "Reference Implementation" it could be packaged with the
compilers but provided in an unsupported mode. (Tell the customers to e-mail
the committee) To be successful though, I believe you have to have the
compiler vendors (and others, of course) driving the effort.

MDC
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