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: 103376,7d14d8f47ca035bf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-04 07:23:12 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!falcon.america.net!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison Sender: usenet@www.newsranger.com References: <3AC8E799.189EE51C@bigfoot.com> <9ab6uj$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> Subject: Re: Ada Generic vs. C++ Templates Message-ID: <61Gy6.1489$jz.126489@www.newsranger.com> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 14:16:34 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.208.22.130 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com X-Trace: www.newsranger.com 986393794 209.208.22.130 (Wed, 04 Apr 2001 10:16:34 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 10:16:34 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6447 Date: 2001-04-04T14:16:34+00:00 List-Id: In article <9ab6uj$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu>, David Starner says... > >On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:26:12 GMT, Ted Dennison wrote: (talking of Mozilla) >>as rule #1. Since they run the most ported public application that I know of, >>I'm inclined to bow to their experience. >Maybe the most ported public C++ application; I think gcc, which runs on >VMS, DOS, Windows, Unix, BeOS and MacOS X, among others, beats Mozilla, as >do a number of the other GNU tools. Right. I should have added "C++" in that sentence. In fact, to be perfectly accurate, I probably should have also added "large" and/or "complex" (a small C++ app ported everywhere might happen to not run into problems). But since this whole issue is over C++ templates, and Mozilla's authority to say whether or not they are portable in general, all that could (or at least should) be taken as an implied. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com