From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,68c3e8a7414929f3 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 X-Received: by 10.68.210.15 with SMTP id mq15mr5481519pbc.2.1362920755711; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 06:05:55 -0700 (PDT) Path: jm3ni42650pbb.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!backlog2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border4.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.thorslund.org!news.jacob-sparre.dk!hugin.jacob-sparre.dk!nuzba.szn.dk!pnx.dk!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why are Ada libraries so poor and disorganized? Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:53:01 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 3FDHFZapNWvKZp/UyWEu7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.14 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Original-Bytes: 2477 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2013-03-03T12:53:01+01:00 List-Id: Le Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:59:31 +0100, a =C3=A9crit:= > 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 =E2=80=9Ca bit=E2=80=9D to read =E2=80=9Camateurish l= ook=E2=80=9D 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 y= ou = 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 th= an = 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=E2=80=91j= oke which = may be half=E2=80=91true, I don't know). -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity