Re: GUI was Re: why Ada is so unpopular ?

[Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>]

amado.alves wrote:
>
> There's another way: compromise. In the ASCLWG we eventually managed 
> to agree upon selecting a pre-existing container library (Charles) to 
> form the basis of the standard proposal. I didn't take long. The group 
> was assembled in June 2002 (the Ada Europe workshop in Vienna), and 
> the proposal was filed in September 2003 (AI-302/2). In the 
> intervening dense discussion (circa 500 messages on the group list, 
> plus circa 100 on the ARG forum) every one of us compromised about 
> something from naming to featured abstractions to iteration methods.

But the proposal isn't Charles and is very minimalist. The proposal 
based on the PragmAda Reusable Components (AI-302-01) has also had to 
change to something different from the PragmARCs. It's interesting that 
the original request for proposals asked for existing libraries for a 
secondary standard, but the actual proposal process forced us to propose 
new libraries with ARM wording as part of the Ada.* hierarchy.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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