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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7d14d8f47ca035bf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-04 09:47:08 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!chcgil2-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newspump.sol.net!nntp.msen.com!uunet!ash.uu.net!xyzzy!nntp From: Jeffrey Carter Subject: Re: Ada Generic vs. C++ Templates X-Nntp-Posting-Host: e246420.msc.az.boeing.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3ACB4A1B.1AC1ACF7@boeing.com> Sender: nntp@news.boeing.com (Boeing NNTP News Access) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: The Boeing Company X-Accept-Language: en References: <3AC8E799.189EE51C@bigfoot.com> <3ACA4A12.9FC665D5@bigfoot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 16:21:47 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD Boeing Kit (WinNT; U) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6460 Date: 2001-04-04T16:21:47+00:00 List-Id: Francois Godme wrote: > > Even more, now that the language has been written down as a standard, what can stop > the convergence of the C++ compilers to the standard? The desire of C++ compiler vendors to tie users to their compilers. Where is P. Brashear when we need him? IIRC, he is involved in Ada compiler conformance testing, and also has a C++ conformance suite. No C++ compiler vendor has ever submitted a compiler for testing, nor has any C++ compiler ever passed. Jeffrey Carter