Workshop Proposals, and Other Resources

Proposals

• Matthew Heaney - charles.zip
• Simon Wright - Booch components
• Jordi Marco and Xavier Franch - Shortcuts
• Martin Dowie
• Mario Amado Alves - Unbounded_Arrays

Ada Container Libraries

• Booch Components (Original)
• Corey Minyard's Ada Structured Library
• Mats Weber's Ada Component Library
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, Software Engineering Laboratory (LGL), ADT Components. Overview paper: Rationale for the Design of Reusable Abstract Data Types
• PragmAda Reusable Components (PragmARCs)
• The Grace Ada Compoent Library

Standard Libraries in other languages

C++

• STL Tutorial Resources at Rensselaer
• Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide (sgi)

  Java

• The Java Collections Framework
• Collections Framework Enhancements (version 1.4 of the Java 2 SDK)
• Collections Framework Overview (Recommnded Reading)

  Other

• Gobo Eiffel Structure Library
• An Overview of Edison (Haskell)

Misc

• S. Tucker Taft - SIGAda 2000 presentation on Possible Directions for Future Ada Enhancements (Powerpoint)
• ISO Working Group asks Ada Community for Candidate APIs for Standardization
• Suggested programming problems for evaluating data structure libraries (local)
• Generic Programming Projects and Open Problems (Musser and Stepanov). The Library Development section contains some interesting ideas.
• Adaptors provide a way to support extendability of the library.
• The Matrix Template Library

Additions? Suggestions? Let us know!