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Le 13/01/2015 22:19, Randy Brukardt a écrit :
> ASIS 
> doesn't have enough abstraction for my taste.
I wasn't part of the initial design of ASIS, but I think the initial
idea was just to provide basic building blocks, from which everybody
could build higher level queries. From that point of view, it succeeded,
I never met a case* where I wasn't able to build the queries I needed
(see the Thick_Queries package of AdaControl)... although some of them
were quite painful.

* TBH, I should mention a big hole: dispatching calls, where something
is clearly missing.

Of course, everybody has its own opinion about where to put the line
between basic building blocks and do-it-yourself. After all, even Lego
has quite sophisticated (and specialized) pieces nowadays.

(When I was a kid, Lego blocks were just intended to build houses. You
only had rectangular blocks, plaques, and tiles... which didn't prevent
me from building airplanes with these).

-- 
J-P. Rosen
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