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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,88ed72d98e6b3457 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-06 12:37:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!rwcrnsc53.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest? References: <3F81700B.1050701@noplace.com> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.234.124.41 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: rwcrnsc53 1065469065 12.234.124.41 (Mon, 06 Oct 2003 19:37:45 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 19:37:45 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 19:37:45 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:331 Date: 2003-10-06T19:37:45+00:00 List-Id: >>>2) Math/Statistics - Vectors, Matrices, Big number math, Symbolic >>>algebra, Stats,.... Ten years or so ago my compiler vendor (RR Software) sent a library and (paper) manual "NAG Small Computer Systems Ada Library". It was pretty basic, but did other vendors also deliver it? Who paid for it and why wasn't it expanded? >>>5) OS Interfacing (including file formats) >>>6) Internet communication protocols >>>10) GUI interface >> 11) Multimedia - sound and images Claw has several of these, and several have been posted to www.adapower.com, including non-Claw versions of SMTP, FTP, and HTTP. >This is really important: I absolutely *never* said there weren't >package out there that can do some/most/all of these things. What I said >was that they are NOT "STANDARD" and a bunch of other undesirable >characteristics. If there was a willingness to adopt some of these So this is not a programming problem, it's a political/economic problem of getting someone to advertise (ie, send out with copies of their compiler), ship, and support a common library. The question then becomes "what's in it for them". I think there may be some confusion in this thread on the point of which problem you are trying to solve.