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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ea92c0e5255811d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-01 05:43:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!freenix!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Container libraries Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 13:43:06 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <5d6fdb61.0302250317.c49d71a@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1046526186 13405 129.241.83.78 (1 Mar 2003 13:43:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 13:43:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34770 Date: 2003-03-01T13:43:06+00:00 List-Id: Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > Right. Similarly, in the former USSR, people did not have to worry > about which brand of butter to buy - if they had one, they were happy. > We do have that problem in our supermarkets. Should we complain ? Do we need five different Office packages with five different fileformats or one fileformat and five different office packages that all uses this? My point is that it would be nice with a standard container library and some container libraries that deal with more special needs. But I don't complain. -- Preben Randhol ---------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent", Isaac Asimov