Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

Alexander Pánek alexander.panek at brainsware.org
Sun Jan 18 23:44:31 PST 2009


Alexander Pánek wrote:
> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>> Alexander Pánek wrote:
>>> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>> D already has ONE standard library.  It's called Phobos.
>>>
>>> *yawn*
>>>
>>> Don’t you get tired of this?
>>
>> I do get tired of the misunderstanding of what Tango is that seems to 
>> have arisen from the misterminology.
> 
> It didn’t arise from misterminology, but people who do call it their 
> (de-facto, but nonetheless) standard D library. You might not accept, 
> respect or acknowledge this in any way, but then again you seem to be 
> all into semantics.
> 
> “A standard library for a programming language is the library that is 
> conventionally made available in every implementation of that language. 
> In some cases, the library is described directly in the programming 
> language specification; in other cases, the contents of the standard 
> library are determined by more informal social practices in the 
> programming community.”

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_library

> I think Tango meets every but the first (conventional) “rule”. So there 
> might have been a misunderstanding I do get tired of on your side.



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