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From: "amado.alves" <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
Subject: RE: GUI was Re: why Ada is so unpopular ?
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:42:36 -0000
Date: 2004-01-21T15:42:36+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.12.1074699773.281.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)

<<...If GtkAda was going to return a 
list of something, shouldn't it ought to be a *Charles* list rather than 
something that was specific to GtkAda? ...>>

Absolutely. This is a fascinating issue. I thought about it when I wrote here before, but kept silent. But now that you've touched it, I'll add a bit. A *lot* of Ada libraries, including already standard ones (e.g. ASIS) and upcoming standard (e.g. Directory_Operations), deal with a lot of data structures, and so they should be using the standard for that (Ada.Containers, also upcoming, AI-302). The result would be clearly a good thing, more cohesion both in the standard and in applications. This is motivation number 1 for Ada.Containers in my paper in Ada-Europe 2004 (about persistent containers, but touching the general issue in passing).



             reply	other threads:[~2004-01-21 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-21 15:42 amado.alves [this message]
2004-01-21 19:22 ` GUI was Re: why Ada is so unpopular ? Randy Brukardt
2004-01-22 13:42   ` Marin David Condic
2004-01-22 17:48     ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-01-22 19:30       ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-01-23 17:37         ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-01-23 13:34       ` Marin David Condic
2004-01-23 17:50         ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-01-23 19:20           ` Hyman Rosen
2004-01-24  6:26             ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-01-24  9:37             ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-01-22 19:33     ` Randy Brukardt
2004-01-23 13:38       ` Marin David Condic
2004-01-22 13:26 ` Marin David Condic
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-22 19:03 amado.alves
2004-01-23 17:55 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-01-21 18:15 amado.alves
2004-01-20 17:55 Robert C. Leif
2004-01-20 18:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-01-20 14:16 amado.alves
2004-01-21 13:22 ` Marin David Condic
2004-01-21 17:28   ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-01-20  4:06 Robert C. Leif
2004-01-20  7:39 ` Preben Randhol
2004-01-20 10:40   ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-01-20 10:59     ` Preben Randhol
2004-01-20 19:42       ` Randy Brukardt
2004-01-20 20:12         ` tmoran
2004-01-21 13:01           ` Marin David Condic
2004-01-21 18:05             ` tmoran
2004-01-21 12:52         ` Marin David Condic
2004-01-20 13:22 ` Marin David Condic
2004-01-20 17:41   ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-01-19  4:11     ` Mark Lorenzen
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