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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.tufts.edu!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!newsfd02.forthnet.gr!not-for-mail From: Ioannis Vranos Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:56:17 +0200 Organization: FORTHnet S.A., Atthidon 4, GR-17671 Kalithea, Greece, Tel: +30 2109559000, Fax: +30 2109559333, url: http://www.forthnet.gr Message-ID: <1110977781.680781@athnrd02> References: <1110059861.560004@athnrd02> <1110266099.441421.179290@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1110332933.587110.260410@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1110390097.532139.43430@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <422f3808$0$30165$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> <1110409958.685759.249420@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <15SdnYvJ0_x3Vq3fRVn-3Q@megapath.net> <1110522060.091940.178510@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1110556346.841594.212520@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <4952804.Myubg7stsI@linux1.krischik.com> <1462853.JgxLXPrZ7W@linux1.krischik.com> <1110831270.911813.215820@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <2484756.KTycvJxKQH@linux1.krischik.com> <1110907090.268126.101030@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <423811a9$0$26546$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: athnrd02.forthnet.gr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: athprx02.forthnet.gr 1110977781 23747 193.92.150.73 (16 Mar 2005 12:56:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@forthnet.gr NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:56:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <423811a9$0$26546$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> Cache-Post-Path: newsfd02!unknown@ppp16-adsl-209.ath.forthnet.gr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9475 comp.lang.c++:45936 comp.realtime:1531 comp.software-eng:5114 Date: 2005-03-16T14:56:17+02:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > The meanings of the word "standard library" are a bit different in the two > languages. > > The C++ standard template library is right now much more extensive than the > Ada 2005 STL variation. One thing to notice here is that STL is a subset (the most part) of the C++ standard library. People confusingly use the term STL and standard library interchangeably. > But Ada.Containers etc. is only one part of the Ada > standard library. When you need to link third party libraries in C++, you > can stay within the language in Ada: I am not sure how this can not happen in C++. > The current Ada standard library includes for example > distributed systems, > information systems ("money computing"), > string processing, > interfaces to other languages, > real-time facilities, and > Ada subsetting definitions. > > Ada 2005 adds more features to the standard, including > linear algebra support, and > more file and network I/O. One question is, can these facilities be implemented with the language itself, or someone has to use another language to do the real work? -- Ioannis Vranos http://www23.brinkster.com/noicys