From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ea92c0e5255811d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-03 00:38:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.r-kom.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Container libraries Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 09:38:54 +0100 Message-ID: References: <5d6fdb61.0302250317.c49d71a@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.111) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1046680735 61836290 212.79.194.111 (16 [77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34817 Date: 2003-03-03T09:38:54+01:00 List-Id: On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:27:52 +0100, "Jean-Pierre Rosen" wrote: >"Preben Randhol" a �crit dans le message de news: slrnb5rvks.3nb.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no... >> Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: >> > Hey, Ada community, did you notice? >> > A user complaining about having *too many* software components available.... >> >> Hehe. Well, understandable in the view that the language is usually the >> main source of the things you need. When you find several similar >> packages you get a bit frustrated about which to choose ;-) >> >Right. Similarly, in the former USSR, people did not have to worry about which >brand of butter to buy - if they had one, they were happy. We do have that problem >in our supermarkets. Should we complain ? It depends. We can be well sure that the market would find an optimal form of fashion shoes. But could we in the case of a fusion reactor? Ergo, top-down is not always worse than bottom-up. --- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de