Re: GNAT for MS Visual Studio

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@acm.nospam.org>]

Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> On 7 Pa , 09:21, Pascal Obry <pas...@obry.net> wrote:
> 
>> The recurrent saying "if you don't like this, do it yourself" in
>> comp.lang.ada is just a big mistake for Ada as a whole.
> 
> Yes. Especially when it's intermixed with claims that Ada allows to
> finish the project earlier when compared to "other" languages.

Most of the data that supports that claim comes from the use of Ada 83, 
which had very little in the way of a standard library, so users had to 
write almost everything themselves. It seems likely, therefore, that it 
will continue to be true for Ada today, even if you have to write a data 
structure yourself.

> Sorry, but reinventing every wheel have *never* made any project
> faster. Not only because it's just directly more work - there is also
> indirectly more work with all the new bugs that get introduced on the
> way.
> Implement my own container? Is this what high-level programming is
> about?

There's really no need to reinvent the wheel in this case. There are 
plenty of Ada libraries available. The PragmAda Reusable Components, for 
example, have data structures that may safely be read by multiple tasks, 
IIRC.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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