From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Ada.Bounded_Strings
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 23:55:56 -0500
Date: 2008-04-04T23:55:56-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ft70pf$ljt$1@jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 444c0bf9-a2ad-4280-8d69-58d59938f69e@d2g2000pra.googlegroups.com
"Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote in message
news:444c0bf9-a2ad-4280-8d69-58d59938f69e@d2g2000pra.googlegroups.com...
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> Again, this doesn't sound reasonable in the context of the sort of
> "business applications" that I used to work on in COBOL. For other
> types of applications, it's probably OK, or Ada.Strings.Unbounded may
> be best. The reason I'm even thinking about all this is that I had
> been hoping for a number of years now that Ada would be able to make
> inroads into "business" applications and maybe be seen as an
> alternative to COBOL, and I'm a bit disappointed that, AFAIK, nothing
> or very little has happened in that arena. Not that I think
> Ada.Strings.Bounded is a major reason for this, or that providing a
> better string-handling facility would help at all. (shrug)
I think that the inability to write a package that "naturally" uses literals
(and possibly indexing and slicing) for a private type are also large
impediments. (Worse, the current string packages cannot be retrofitted to
use such a capability even if it was added to Ada, lessening the possibility
of doing that.)
Net-net, I think the string packages are a disaster: just good enough to
prevent them from being properly replaced, but not good enough to use in a
natural way. (And Ada doesn't do anything useful to support UTF-8, which
doesn't help matters any.)
Randy.
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2008-03-31 22:44 Untyped Ada? Phaedrus
2008-04-01 0:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-04-01 7:19 ` tmoran
2008-04-01 7:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-01 8:28 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-04-01 21:44 ` Phaedrus
2008-04-01 21:51 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-04-01 17:09 ` Pascal Obry
2008-04-01 22:00 ` Phaedrus
2008-04-02 7:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-04 15:16 ` Graham
2008-04-04 16:10 ` Pascal Obry
2008-04-04 21:09 ` Ada.Bounded_Strings Adam Beneschan
2008-04-04 21:15 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-05 4:39 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Gautier
2008-04-05 9:43 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Pascal Obry
2008-04-05 10:10 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-05 11:36 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Gautier
2008-04-05 12:14 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Pascal Obry
2008-04-06 0:31 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Randy Brukardt
2008-04-07 14:57 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-07 15:23 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-07 16:34 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded stefan-lucks
2008-04-07 17:34 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded (see below)
2008-04-12 18:50 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-12 19:46 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-13 16:53 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-13 20:10 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-13 23:52 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14 8:00 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-14 15:25 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14 18:36 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-15 1:39 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-12 21:09 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-13 16:31 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-13 20:02 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-13 23:20 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14 9:07 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-14 15:50 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14 18:52 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-15 2:07 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-15 8:02 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-15 14:20 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-15 15:23 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-16 2:51 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-16 8:00 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
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2008-04-15 14:58 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-16 2:46 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-16 8:16 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-16 14:40 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-16 18:28 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-21 0:44 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-21 14:08 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-21 16:35 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-21 18:04 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-22 0:19 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-22 0:49 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-22 1:02 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-22 15:30 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-22 16:08 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-22 15:25 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-22 15:54 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-22 15:41 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-22 17:49 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-22 18:26 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Samuel Tardieu
2008-04-22 18:59 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-22 18:47 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-22 19:19 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-22 19:41 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-22 22:55 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-23 6:40 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded christoph.grein
2008-04-23 6:54 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded christoph.grein
2008-04-23 10:42 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-23 12:32 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-23 12:52 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded christoph.grein
2008-04-23 13:34 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-23 15:12 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-23 15:36 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded (see below)
2008-04-23 17:09 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Ray Blaak
2008-04-24 0:29 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Randy Brukardt
2008-04-22 20:15 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-23 13:14 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Peter Hermann
2008-04-23 14:40 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-23 15:03 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-22 19:56 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-21 18:50 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-22 0:31 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14 15:11 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-14 16:09 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14 18:13 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-15 1:35 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-15 20:33 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-16 3:11 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-04 23:35 ` Ada.Bounded_Strings Robert A Duff
2008-04-05 1:46 ` Ada.Bounded_Strings Adam Beneschan
2008-04-05 4:55 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2008-04-05 7:30 ` Ada.Bounded_Strings Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-06 0:44 ` Ada.Bounded_Strings Randy Brukardt
2008-04-04 16:18 ` Untyped Ada? Adam Beneschan
2008-04-04 16:32 ` DScott
2008-04-04 17:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-04 18:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-05 8:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-04 19:14 ` Graham
2008-04-04 21:06 ` tmoran
2008-04-05 8:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-12 16:50 ` Eric Hughes
2008-04-04 18:02 ` adaworks
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