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From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)
Subject: Re: Ada Generic vs. C++ Templates
Date: 3 Apr 2001 00:53:39 GMT
Date: 2001-04-03T00:53:39+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ab6uj$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: U76y6.63$jz.1782@www.newsranger.com

On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:26:12 GMT, Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
>I didn't say they weren't of practical use. I just said they are not a feature
>that can be counted on to be portable; at least not according to Mozilla. Their
>website was quite recently updated, and still includes the template prohibition
>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.

-- 
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org
"I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and 
laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg



  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-03  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-02 14:28 Ada Generic vs. C++ Templates Josef Widder
2001-04-02 14:38 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-02 20:57   ` Francois Godme
2001-04-02 21:26     ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-03  0:53       ` David Starner [this message]
2001-04-04  7:12         ` Pascal Obry
2001-04-04 12:37         ` Stephen Leake
2001-04-04 14:16         ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-03 22:09       ` Francois Godme
2001-04-04 16:17         ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-04 16:21         ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-04-04 16:49           ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-05 22:31             ` Colin Paul Gloster
2001-04-04 16:56           ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-04 17:02             ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-05  0:35         ` James Rogers
2001-04-05  3:38           ` DuckE
2001-04-05 14:25             ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-05 20:32               ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-05 21:04                 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-06 16:19                   ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-06  0:37             ` James Rogers
2001-04-06 10:38               ` Colin Paul Gloster
2001-04-11  3:33                 ` Stephen Howe
2001-04-11 14:33                   ` Colin Paul Gloster
2001-04-04 13:24 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-04-05  8:46   ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2001-04-04 17:30 ` Ehud Lamm
2001-04-05 22:04   ` Colin Paul Gloster
2001-04-10  7:03     ` Simon Wright
2001-04-13 14:11       ` Pat Rogers
2001-04-17  8:27         ` Colin Paul Gloster
2001-04-08  5:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
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