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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Ada2005 clear screen etc.
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"Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org> writes:

> Absolutely. If we had a committee that built and maintained a library of
> utility code as a "Reference Implementation" it could be packaged with the
> compilers but provided in an unsupported mode. 

SIGAda is trying to start something like that (see
http://www.sigada.org/wg/apiwg/). Maybe it will succeed.


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-- Stephe