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Subject: Re: Ada Successor Language
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On Monday, June 18, 2018 at 5:36:56 PM UTC-5, Paul Rubin wrote:
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes:
> > P.S. Stepanov arguing for generics (templates) claimed that the reason
> > why C++ needed this mess was impossibility to write Max using dynamic
> > polymorphism... I believe it is possible to have a language where
> > generic Max and Swap could be written without generics.
>=20
> I've been wanting to look up how Ada generics work.  C++ generics are
> implemented with templates which leads to a horrible mess, but generics
> themselves don't have to be a mess, as far as I know.
>=20
> Some comparisons:
>=20
> http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=3D10.1.1.110.122&rep=3D=
rep1&type=3Dpdf

It seems that Ada would score rather well in Table 1 on page 4 had it been =
included:

Ada
 =E2=97=8F   :   multi-type concepts
 =E2=97=8F   :   multiple constraints
 =E2=97=8F   :   associated type access
 =E2=97=92   :   constraints on associated types
 =E2=97=8F   :   type aliases
 =E2=97=8F   :   separate compilation (exemplary Ada compilers)
 =E2=97=8F   :   implicit argument deduction