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From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner)
Subject: Re: Ada and Java. different behaviour. casting long to int problem.
Date: 1999/06/18
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On 17 Jun 1999 11:39:46 -0700, john@smith.nospam.com
<john@smith.nospam.com> wrote: 
 
>So, unless Ada can come up with a set of libraries that come bundled
>with your GNAT compiler and ready to use and can match the
>functionalitites of those provided by Java, I am afraid Ada will

Well, now would appear an opportune moment to plug libra (again):

a pure Ada '95 library providing generic data structures such as
binary search trees, lists, stacks, queues etc and network operations
for NNTP and SMTP. Libra is available under the modified GPL, from 
http://www.skinner.demon.co.uk/aidan/programming/libra/

libra 0.1.0 will be available by this Monday and will offer all of the
above in a stable and, hopefully, bug-free manner. 

Libra 0.1.1 will include the addition of AVL-balanced trees, B-Trees,
Heaps, FTP and HTTP protocols and implementations of all the
cryptographic alogrithims that are candidates for the AES.[1][2]

- Aidan

[1] Subject to export restrictions.
[2] Thanks to Michael Roe for this bit.
-- 
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