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Subject: Re: GNAT for MS Visual Studio
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On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 03:42 -0700, Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> If there are no containers to do the job, then programmers will
> successfully do this job with other languages and they will never
> express their use cases here, so you will not find any justification
> for implementing them in Ada, thus scaring even more programmers off
> and so on.

Agreed, but certainly it will be interesting to learn about alleged
types of container usage in other languages. (Besides arrays.
I'm not sure it makes sense to compare arrays in Fortran, APL,
or Ada to arrays in C++'s STL, say).