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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: Proving Correctness (was Java Portability)
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"nicolas" <n.brunot@cadwin.com> writes:

> We are giving to others languages users, all what they need, to be convinced
> that Ada users are themselves unable to stick to what they promote.
> If you can't bypass GNAT.Regexp, obviously GNAT.Regexp should be in the set
> of standard libraries, it shouldn't be named GNAT, and should be available
> as it is for any compiler.

I agree. But at least ACT has done a job that nobody else have done before!

Maybe a regular expression library should be added into the standard Ada
library (I'm all for), but this is another story. I'm sure we think that the
library revision process is too slow, but face the truth, Ada market is small
and I doubt that the ARG have as much money than SUN :)

Pascal.

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