Re: status of Ada STL?

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

Russ wrote:
> You have a lots of knifty tricks, don't you. By talking about

The truth is often inconvienent, isn't it?

> "software in use", you can pretend that dying languages are still
> thriving. By the same trick, I suppose I could tell my boss that I

In what way is Cobol "dying"? Last I heard, there was more new Cobol 
being written every year that there probabaly is Python code in existence.

I'll try this once again: Just because you don't use it and don't come 
across it much yourself, doesn't mean a language isn't quite healthy.


> strong, you must live in an ivory tower somewhere. Modula I don't know
> about, but I certainly don't hear much about it. If it is still

That's the exact problem isn't it? You can't just assume that anything 
you don't hear about in your work must not be thriving or important.