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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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: 2001-04-07 22:02:07 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!lsanca1-snf1!news.gtei.net!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: Lao Xiao Hai Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Generic vs. C++ Templates Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 22:00:00 -0700 Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering Message-ID: <3ACFF050.1E003887@ix.netcom.com> References: Reply-To: richard@adaworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 3f.35.b3.68 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 8 Apr 2001 05:01:06 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6634 Date: 2001-04-08T05:01:06+00:00 List-Id: Josef Widder wrote: > As project for university i'd like to compare the power of the Ada > Generic construct relative to C++ templates. With the exception of Ehud Lamm and a few others, I find the responses we have given rather unfortunate. Here is someone asking for the answer to a question and we start an argument about "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin." I will send him the chapter from my still unpublished book that deals with generics along with some sample code. He can study it and come to his own conclusions. May I suggest that others of us also send him code samples and examples he can use in completing his study? Sorry to sound so grumpy about this. There are those researchers out there who are genuinely interested in the answers to the problems they are trying to solve. Richard Riehle