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: 103376,897417b380f5731e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jon S Anthony Subject: Re: The Next Microsoft? Date: 2000/05/05 Message-ID: <39133389.184@synquiry.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 619733007 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8eg37k$15n$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8epkoa$b8b$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8eu0ob$7qv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <391328F0.1221@synquiry.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: client 957559779 38.151.18.1 (Fri, 05 May 2000 16:49:39 EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 16:49:39 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > > Jon S Anthony writes: > > Stepenov's arguments for this have never made the least bit of sense. > > The whole of STL (imo) is wrongheaded from top to bottom and the > > template stuff in support shows an equal incompetence. > > You are entitled to this opinion, but it is wrong. The design of STL is Which, of course, is just your opinion. There are many reasons why I hold my opinion, but I am not going to go into them here. > supremely elegant. Not only does it give immense expressive power with > simple syntax, Here we are in complete disagreement. This is some of the ugliest and convoluted stuff ever put forward. > properly. Ada has nothing like it, since it is missing automatic > instantiation of generics. So? I am not in any sense arguing for Ada here. If I was arguing for something in this context, I would be pointing you at Common Lisp. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Synquiry Technologies, Ltd. Belmont, MA 02478, 617.484.3383 "Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately, Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari