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From: sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus)
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Subject: Re: Ada Generic vs. C++ Templates
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:24:26 +0000 (UTC)
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Josef Widder (e9625114@student.tuwien.ac.at) wrote:
: As project for university i'd like to compare the power of the Ada 
: Generic construct relative to C++ templates.

(Sorry if this comes twice, I'm sitting at a US keyboard,
with y in place of z and consequenes...)

Is Josef's question of no general interest? As yet I've
seen only barking preference-statements about 3-character-name
programming languages :-)
Bjarne Stroustrup's Book, 3rd ed., says where C++ templates
originally came from, namely a now outdated version of Ada
and CLU. In anothere thread you, Josef, will find a partial
comparison of C++ templates vs. Ada generics. (Being recursive
or not, compile time issues, ... and relative merits thereof).

As for programming language resources, I find BURKS
rather useful: http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/index.htm

Iirc, there is a "standard" reference for generics dating
from the late 70s. Could someone in the know enlighten,
please?

Georg