Hi Pascal & Matt,

I've forwarded your comments to Joe Tallet (& cc'ed him on this message).
We'll see what we can do to improve the Patterns web pages.

Take Care,
Ed


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-----Original Message-----
From:   Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Matthew Heaney
Sent:   Wednesday, March 10, 1999 4:28 AM
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Subject:        Re: Patterns Workshop @ SIGAda 99?

Pascal Obry <[log in to unmask]> writes:

> > <http://www.acm.org/archives/patterns.html>
> >
>
> I found the ACM patterns page not really well organized...What I'm
> looking for is a pattern not a month.

I feel your pain.  We need to do better.

There's a separate page for the patterns working group, but when you go
there all you get are a bunch of confusing HTML frames and senseless UML
diagrams.

The HTML guidelines used by the FSF are very helpful; perhaps we should
use them as a model for making improvements.

<http://www.gnu.org/server/fsf-html-style-sheet.html#TOCHTMLGuidelines>


> Is there a page listing patterns names instead of month names ?

No, but communicate this to Ed Colbert -- he's the WG chair.  Brad
Balfour and Joe Tallet set up the page initially; maybe we can get their
help too.


> Am I missing something there ?

Just a simple-to-use, easy-to-understand web-page.


> In any case I'd like to thank Matthew for his work on the Ada patterns
> implementations.

You're very welcome.  I've only got about 7 more patterns to go before
the whole book is done!  I'm working on the command pattern now, and
it'll be done in a day or two.