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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin) Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/07 Message-ID: <5aueuv$sm0@uni.library.ucla.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 208349570 references: <32CCE4ED.6A21@online.no> <5ajo99$khu@panix.com> <32ce7009.280817694@news.zip.com.au> <32D0CA27.44C2@ghgcorp.com> organization: University of California, Los Angeles newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1997-01-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: ohk@ultra.tfdt-o.nta.no (Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB) writes: >However, if I remember correctly, Alex Stepanov had earlier tried to >implement a library like the C++ STL in Ada, but was incapable of >doing it. This would indicate that the C++ template mechanism is more >flexible than the Ada generics. >Any comments? I think this is with Ada83 (I actually have his unimpressive book "The Ada(83) Generic Library"). It took literally minutes to smash into braindead limitations of Ada83 which made elegant data structure libraries infeasable. Since the standard was locked, it took 12 years before any of these problems were corrected. To me this proved the need for timely evolution of computer languages. Jay