billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 ) (09/24/89)
From oglesby@m3.multiflow.COM (Jose Oglesby): > I just started reading this book [Software Components with Ada, by > Grady Booch] and I was wondering if the code for the components > described in it is available on line anywhere. They are sold by Wizard Software, 835 S. Moore Street, Lakewood, CO; the charge is from $100 for a one-CPU educational license to $5000 for a commercial site license, or at least that's what the prices were in October 1988. > What I would like to see in this group is pointers to collections (in > any language) of useful components (such as the ones described in > Booch's book). There is a guidebook called Ada: Sources and Resources which is written by Karl Nyberg of Grebyn Corporation (karl@grebyn.com) which gives a comprehensive survey for Ada components; the address is Karl Nyberg, Grebyn Corporation, P.O. Box 1144, Vienna, VA, 22180. > I would also like to see discussions about the > quality of such collections. So far, for a group about reusable > code, there has been precious little code to reuse presented here. If you want lots of reuseable code, try the Ada Software Repository; for the cost of postage, you can get a very full magtape (6250 bpi in Unix tar format, several mag tapes at lower densities or other formats) full of reuseable code. (You must supply the tapes...) I'm e-mailing you a description of the Ada Software Repository and how to access it, which I will be happy to send to anyone else who requests it via e-mail to wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu. Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu