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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Stanley Allen Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/07 Message-ID: <32D245D5.2C0@ghgcorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 208265609 references: content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Date: 1997-01-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB wrote: > However, if I remember correctly, Alex Stepanov had earlier tried to > implement a library like the C++ STL in Ada, but was incapable of > doing it. This would indicate that the C++ template mechanism is more > flexible than the Ada generics. > Any comments? My history may be a bit rusty, but I believe that Alex Stepanov's work in Ada was successful, just not widely used. He had some published material about the Ada work, which I have not seen directly. It is listed in the references of his on-line paper "Algorithm-Oriented Generic Libraries": http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~kennyz/www/ADS/Algor/Algor.html Stepanov's work was done using Ada83; it would certainly be different if it were done today with Ada95. -- Stanley Allen mailto:sallen@ghgcorp.com