Re: Practicalities of Ada for app development

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:04:07 +0200, Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> a  
écrit:
> Maybe this should be a challenge to the Ada community to come up with  
> some common package specification

I was wondering some days ago, if that already exist.

What's appealing in your idea, is the reference to specifications, not  
implementations. We should indeed focus on common specifications, above  
common libraries.

While I hardly believe a specification could match every one's style  
convention and every one's common patterns. Even such a simple thing as  
wither or not to use a “_Type” suffix on type names did not get an  
unanimously approved answer (remember previous talks here on c.l.a on the  
subject).

So indeed, this may be specifications instead of libraries, and there may  
also be two of three (probably more) specifications set for a given area.

Not a piece of cake.

-- 
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