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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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: 2001-04-03 20:56:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!dvdeug From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Generic vs. C++ Templates Date: 3 Apr 2001 00:53:39 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <9ab6uj$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <3AC8E799.189EE51C@bigfoot.com> Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e531b.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (Linux) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6429 Date: 2001-04-03T00:53:39+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:26:12 GMT, Ted Dennison 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