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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,33fc00a6ce6be410 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Harald Korneliussen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Dynamic String Date: 1 Nov 2005 23:31:43 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1130916703.800627.9510@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1130753721.639869.322210@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1130832161.671656.88230@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.38.140.179 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1130916708 10052 127.0.0.1 (2 Nov 2005 07:31:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 07:31:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=158.38.140.179; posting-account=5vUApw0AAADF5Kx_4-L9ZPdL9lZywYoQ Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6108 Date: 2005-11-01T23:31:43-08:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > "Harald Korneliussen" writes: > > > btw, I think Ada is great, but it's not for rapid application > > development. > > For the applications I write, Ada is the fastest (in development time) > language I know (and I have used APL, Visual Basic, C, C++, Emacs > Lisp, Java). > > The speed is partly due to the library of useful stuff I've built up > over the years (including my own container library); Ada makes it much > easier to write such a library. > > -- > -- Stephe There are certainly applications where I would expect this. I was writing my own container and algorithm libraries myself, but mostly to learn. I realize that rolling on my own might hurt cooperative efforts, so I will certainly explore the new Ada.Containers library, which I am very pleased to hear was included :-)