Re: Standard Library Interest? (The Big Player ACT)

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote:
: That's why I've been suggesting that to get a good, Conventional Ada 
: Library of some sort that is used on most Ada platforms, its going to 
: take more than just some volunteers hacking some stuff together and 
: putting it on a web site. Even if that was just "a start" with the hope 
: that one day, the vendors would pick it up and build on it and turn it 
: into "The Standard", it has a whole lot of speculation and "ifs" to 
: overcome. I don't think it would work without some committment of 
: support and guidance from the vendors. It almost has to have some kind 
: of "for-profit" motive built into it or its just too big an undertaking 
: to happen on its own.

There is extensive documentation for Charles, though (1) it is named
STL elsewhere, and (2) Charles is "an Ada library", so there are
differences. However, being "modelled principally on the C++ STL",
there are quite some good books covering STL usage and concepts,
and thus, mutatis mutandis, some Charles concepts.

(Does it help knowing that STL work began with Ada and Scheme? :)

And aren't there extensive reports about the Booch components?
For the 83 version, you have a book covering a lot.
Booch is a writer, too, isn't he, so I gather that the free
Booch components aren't lightyears away from MS libraries, even
where the documents aren't in the distribution, or in the source
files?

What do you think about the descriptions in the source files of
Mats Weber's components?


Georg