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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Wanted: Ada STL.  Reward: Ada's Future
Date: 1999/02/05
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Matthew Heaney wrote ...
[...]
|This is yet another reason why I think that looking at the STL as a
|model for a standard Ada library is dangerous and misleading.
|
|The idioms in both languages are completely different.  So forget about
|the STL as a model for an Ada library.


Hear hear.

Nick