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,fdc75443ea18fb32 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-28 00:07:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!213.204.128.162!news000.worldonline.se!news010.worldonline.se!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C049B27.D7D19EBF@mida.se> From: Mats Karlssohn Organization: MIDA Systemutveckling AB X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Queue References: <%QRM7.39743$xS6.65958@www.newsranger.com> <9u0qhb$pq5$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:07:03 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.204.132.118 X-Trace: news010.worldonline.se 1006934790 213.204.132.118 (Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:06:30 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:06:30 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17085 Date: 2001-11-28T09:07:03+01:00 List-Id: Brian Rogoff wrote: %< > Interestingly enough, there was a proposal to do something like this > (very much like the C++ STL) in Ada circa 1990. I mentioned it loooong > ago, maybe in 1997 when there was some discussion of the STL here. I > forget the author's name, but she was a prof at some South African > university. What's interesting to me is that this was completely > independent of the STL line of work. I can dig up the ref if anyone is > interested. Please do! I'd like to read that. > Doing an STL like library in Ada is certainly possible, but it will never > fit as snugly with Ada as the STL does with C++, for a number of reasons. I haven't really dug into this subject, would you care to expand on this issue and perhaps suggest ways to make it fit better with Ada. -- Mats Karlssohn, developer mailto:mats@mida.se Mida Systemutveckling AB http://www.mida.se Box 64, S-732 22 ARBOGA, SWEDEN Phone: +46-(0)589-89808 Fax: +46-(0)589-89809