Re: Why are Ada libraries so poor and disorganized?

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

ferrariv65@gmail.com writes:

It's possible that the fact that the page you found is disorganised has
prevented you from finding the gems.

> The list of available libraries at AdaPower [1] is far from being a
> satisfactory toolkit. Many of the listed libraries have an amateurish
> look, as well as being old and unmaintained. The webpage itself, which
> comes up as the first result when searching for "Ada libraries" with
> Google, is very old (look at the copyright) and shabby. I have seen
> better maintained webpages for toy languages. What's even more
> embarrassing, is that not only the webpage that came up with this
> first Google result is so bad, but this is about the only search
> result that contains useful libraries!

Here, it was the third result. I agree it's not maintained well (not
maintained at all, as far as I can see); shame it's still high on
Google's ranking.

The second result from Google[1] isn't bad, especially if you go straight
to the internal link[2]; better is the fourth result[3].

AWS isn't a standard library (that is, it's not in the
standard). Instead, it's a library maintained by AdaCore. You might find
their GNAT Component Collection[4] interesting.

[1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming
[2] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming#External_Libraries
[3] http://www.adaic.org/ada-resources/tools-libraries/
[4] http://libre.adacore.com/tools/gnat-component-collection/