Re: ANN: Units of measurement for Ada v 3.4 released

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 4:37:13 AM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:13:42 -0700 (PDT), Dan'l Miller wrote:
> > Also, revealing which severe roadblocks (if any) that you hit using
> > Ada2012 in bringing this library to fruition as this flower blossoms would
> > be interesting to fix in Ada202X.
> 
> It is kept compilable with Ada 2012. The things which could improve it are
> compile-time discriminant expressions and mandatory removal of static
> discriminants. I don't see them coming anytime soon in Ada.

http://www.ada-auth.org/ais.html
Why not?  Have you made the case in officially-submitted Ada Issues (AIs)?  Why let Ada languish unimproved when you as an expert (with demonstrable concrete examples from in-use libraries) know how to make Ada better?

> It is difficult to say if language design driven by libraries is good or
> bad. STL influenced C++ before Boost.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Template_Library#History
Alexander Stepanov wrote the initial versions of STL in Ada.  C++1998 was heavily influenced by that Ada work to bring C++'s feature-set on parity with Ada.