Re: c++ vs ada results

[blakemor@software.org (Alex Blakemore)]

Somebody said (sorry I lost the name :(
>>Seriously, what I find disconcerting is that his abstractions have a
>>strange feel to them. They don't reflect the way I think about objects,
>>so using them is a bit too much of an effort. (This is an important
>>issue in program/library design!)

Jim Showalter replied
>I would be interested in an elaboration of this point, since I am hard
>pressed to imagine what you find disconcerting or strange about the
>components--they're just things like lists and queues and rings and

I agree with the first poster.

After using them on and off for a couple years, I have lost enthusiasm.
The simple things like lists and sets add more complexity
to the client code than they take away in many cases. The complex structures
have a very strange interface that makes using them very awkward and
in some cases error prone.  The tree packages are a prime example,
try explaining set_child or swap_child sometime.

They're a nice attempt but I cant believe this is the end ot the rainbow.
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