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,be23df8e7e275d73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-07 00:20:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!148.122.208.68!news2.oke.nextra.no!nextra.com!news1.oke.nextra.no.POSTED!not-for-mail Sender: ohk@maestro.clustra.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Proving Correctness (was Java Portability) References: <9jrt62$38t$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B619A6D.5DD6E782@home.com> <3B6636BA.96FD8348@home.com> <9kb3ub$hdo$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <9kchn1$lng$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <9kea9a$lsc$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9keduf$qvc$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <9kelv1$riq$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <9klokd0nif@drn.newsguy.com> <9kme3f$fd0$1@nh.pace.co.uk> From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.143.59.98 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@nextra.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 09:20:06 MET DST Organization: Nextra Public Access X-Trace: readme.online.no 997168806 194.143.59.98 Date: 07 Aug 2001 09:20:30 +0200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11458 Date: 2001-08-07T09:20:30+02:00 List-Id: Excellent idea. This is essentially what happened with STL. "Marin David Condic" writes: > There was an attempt to have a working group via SIGAda do this, but it > rather fell apart. Maybe a better way of doing it would be to glom onto some > existing collection of stuff and start enhancing/modifying it & making it > available to all vendors as easily licensable Ada source. (The license is > important - many people would not want to build apps with it if it came > under GPL for fear of infecting their own code.) > > MDC > -- > Marin David Condic > Senior Software Engineer > Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com > Enabling the digital revolution > e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com > Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ > > > "Pascal Obry" wrote in message > news:uhevluxrf.fsf@wanadoo.fr... > > > > Maybe all Ada vendors should put some money on some sort of organization > to > > have the Ada libraries updated using standard Ada without vendor-specific > > additions. This would benefit the whole Ada community. Does such an > > organization exist ? > > > > > -- Kabelsalat ist gesund. Ole-Hj. Kristensen