From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-21 07:02:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!green.octanews.net!news-out.octanews.net!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!news.octanews.net!ash.uu.net!spool.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:02:06 -0400 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Message-ID: <1082556126.182066@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@nightcrawler.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1082556126 3123 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7383 Date: 2004-04-21T10:02:06-04:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > You will, just at some later stage of development. You can easily > write templates in C++, but it is very difficult to understand and use > them. You just don't like generics. C++ templates are neither difficult to understand nor to use, any more than Ada is. Just like Ada, it helps if you learn about them correctly.