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: 2002-04-19 04:11:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:00:43 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3CBFF8DB.74E04B3C@brighton.ac.uk> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1019214107 409 193.62.183.204 (19 Apr 2002 11:01:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Apr 2002 11:01:47 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22775 Date: 2002-04-19T11:01:47+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen 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. This figures. Java's Hashtable class (and more recent replacements HashMap and TreeMap) takes a similar pounding; and hashes in Perl are an absolute godsend. Amazing how much programmer time & effort can be wasted in languages that don't have something like these. ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------