Re: Bases for the Design of a Standard Container Library for Ada

[Matthew Heaney <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net>]

Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> Matthew Heaney wrote:
> 
> > The proposal is based on the Charles algorithms and container library,
> > which is available from my home page.
>  
> > <http://home.earthlink.net/~matthewjheaney/charles/index.html>
> 
> You think you will be successfull with your proposal?

Well, I don't know -- it's up the the ARG.  I hope so.  I think Charles
is at the right level of abstraction, and satisfies the goals that a
library should be safe, easy-to-use, flexible, and efficient.

One thing Charles has going for it is that it's modeled on the C++ STL,
which has emerged as the defacto standard by which other libraries are
measured.  The STL is a very, very good container library, and there is
absolutely no reason why the STL can't be written in Ada95.

Realize of course that even though Charles is modeled on the STL, it is
not a literal translation of the C++ version.  Charles is first and
foremost an Ada library.