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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest?
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:09:06 +0000 (UTC)
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"Marin David Condic" <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message
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> What I *am* saying is that if Ada is going to have some kind of
> Conventional Ada Library full of tools, that the Ada language standard
> is the entirely wrong place to put it. (At least initially - the

Secondary standards have already been tried and I don't think they
have been very successful, e.g. ISO/IEC 13813.

It seems that the Ada community isn't active enough to go and root
out and use other things if it's not in the RM, it doesn't exist!

I hope that the APIWG can get some momentum behind it and we
need to promote it more in cla.

Just my $0.02