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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC 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: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: "Norman H. Cohen" Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/10 Message-ID: <32D6A2D5.32BA@watson.ibm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 209021548 references: <32ce7009.280817694@news.zip.com.au> <32D0CA27.44C2@ghgcorp.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: ncohen@watson.ibm.com 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: 1997-01-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Andrew Koenig wrote: > What Alex told me about that effort was that he was unable to find > a single Ada compiler that implemented the standard accurately enough > to enable him to do what he wanted to do with his library. Alex Stepanov's Ada project took place nine years ago. A lot of early Ada compilers had trouble with intricate uses of generics, particularly with such things as generics nested within generics. However, most Ada compilers have been much more reliable than that for many years now. -- Norman H. Cohen mailto:ncohen@watson.ibm.com http://www.research.ibm.com/people/n/ncohen