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,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-18 15:37:11 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.abs.net!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!xyzzy!nntp From: Jeffrey Carter Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community X-Nntp-Posting-Host: e246420.msc.az.boeing.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3CBF4888.A5C2AD2@boeing.com> Sender: nntp@news.boeing.com (Boeing NNTP News Access) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: The Boeing Company X-Accept-Language: en References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <3CBAFFEE.2080708@snafu.de> <4519e058.0204171036.6f0a7394@posting.google.com> <3CBDD795.4060706@snafu.de> <4519e058.0204180800.44fac012@posting.google.com> <3CBF0341.8020406@mail.com> <4519e058.0204181251.415ff7f1@posting.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 22:28:24 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD Boeing Kit (WinNT; U) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22758 Date: 2002-04-18T22:28:24+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > > I was just reading somewhere (exactly where escapes me) of a recent > > survey done on C++ programmers who have started using the STL. There > > was some surprise to discover that the most used container was map. > > Apparently what happens is that once programmers have map available, > > they begin using it all over the place, replacing little local ad-hoc > > lookup structures such as linear searches through arrays. > > Maps would certianly be my prime candidate. My last project > incorporated the Booch Components just for the map support. It also > seemed to be the most talked about other component during the strawman > list discussions (although admittedly I was doing a lot of that > talking). I've never used a map, but I do use skip lists frequently, probably for the same sort of thing. -- Jeffrey Carter