Re: Legit Warnings or not

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> No one uses predefined libraries of any kind in Ada unless they either
> wrote them themselves or they are part of the standard. Otherwise,
> people claim that Ada cannot do X even though it is simple to write a
> package to do X.
>
> That would absolutely be the result if we adopted your
> approach. Hardly anyone would use it, and Ada would be purceived as
> substantially less powerful.

"No one"?

There have always been real users for the Booch Components. 257
downloads in the last year isn't zero. I don't know how many of those
were for commercial use, but I do know that real projects, some in
aerospace (but I hope not safety-related) have used them.

Most people who use sockets with GNAT Ada use GNAT.Sockets (OK, they
quite likely think GNAT=Ada) and I'd guess that most of the others use
AdaSockets.


That said, I've always found Ada's low-level facilities perfectly
adequate, even if at times they can be hard work!