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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-28 05:30:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1!bredband!uio.no!newsfeed1.uni2.dk!news.get2net.dk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Sender: malo@niflheim.malonet Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X References: <6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com> <3ED4A94C.2020501@noplace.com> From: Mark Lorenzen Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: 28 May 2003 16:31:59 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.84.221.216 X-Complaints-To: abuse@colt-telecom.dk X-Trace: news.get2net.dk 1054124938 62.84.221.216 (Wed, 28 May 2003 14:28:58 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 14:28:58 CEST Organization: Colt Telecom Kunde Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37900 Date: 2003-05-28T16:31:59+02:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic writes: > I think a standard Ada sockets package would be A Good Thing. So would > something like an XML parser be a good thing. (Make it use the OO > features Ada has so that it closely matches the XML standard. This is > the only thing I don't like about the XMLAda package currently > floating about - it uses discriminated records instead of tagged > records, which would be the natural way to express what is in the XML > standard.) > > This is another case where having some sort of Conventional Ada > Library external of the standard would be A Good Thing. Get things > like this into the library quickly, gain some experience with use and > when they stabilize discuss the possibility of including them into the > standard. > > MDC For inter-process communication mechanisms such as sockets, we already have the ISO/IEC 14519 standard. It defines a *wealth* of usefull bindings to a POSIX-like operating system. However, I would appreciate the definition of a standard container libray with lists, sets, multisets and so on. - Mark