Re: Why are Ada libraries so poor and disorganized?

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

Le Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:59:31 +0100, <ferrariv65@gmail.com> a écrit:


> Many of the listed libraries have an amateurish  look

First, keep in mind the are offered for free, if you want more, think of  
giving something for it to the author, which would probably be happy of  
it. Then it hearts “a bit” to read “amateurish look” here: it may be to  
your eyes, but not to someone else's eyes. The real issue is about style,  
convention and design rules. Indeed, many libraries from many authors,  
means many differences in styles, conventions and design rules, and if you  
mix all together, that will looks inconsistent. That's more a matter of  
standard. If you want consistent design, only use library from a single  
author (possibly give him/her something to get the job done if something  
looks missing to fulfil your needs), or (I know it's more easily said than  
done), write your owns, with your own consistent style and design rules.

Or may that means Ada is better suited to things to do yourself than  
looking for someone else which already did it for you :P (half‑joke which  
may be half‑true, I don't know).

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