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,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-19 17:41:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!dca6-feed2.news.algx.net!allegiance!nntp.abs.net!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!spool0901.news.uu.net!spool0900.news.uu.net!reader0900.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Sender: DB3L@CTWD0143 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Grace and Maps (was Re: Development process in the Ada community) References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <3CBAFFEE.2080708@snafu.de> <4519e058.0204171036.6f0a7394@posting.google.com> <3CBDD795.4060706@snafu.de> <4519e058.0204180800.44fac012@posting.google.com> <3CBF0341.8020406@mail.com> From: David Bolen Date: 19 Apr 2002 20:42:54 -0400 Message-ID: Organization: Fitlinxx, Inc. - Stamford, CT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.247.212.3 X-Trace: 1019263280 reader0.ash.ops.us.uu.net 972 208.247.212.3 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22799 Date: 2002-04-19T20:42:54-04:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" writes: > When the whole discussion of what eventually began to emerge as Grace got > started, there seemed to be a consensus that if you had lists and maps, most > of the other sorts of containers just wouldn't be that big a deal. Lists and > Maps just cover the bulk of what you need to do in most practical > programming situations. I wouldn't be surprised that C++ programmers have > had similar experience. (...) And from another language perspective, in Python, the fundamental built-in data structure types (aside from numerics) are sequences (lists/tuples) and mappings (dictionaries) and certainly in my experience they cover the vast majority of practical situations quite capably. -- -- David -- /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\ \ David Bolen \ E-mail: db3l@fitlinxx.com / | FitLinxx, Inc. \ Phone: (203) 708-5192 | / 860 Canal Street, Stamford, CT 06902 \ Fax: (203) 316-5150 \ \-----------------------------------------------------------------------/