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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-27 13:12:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!199.45.49.37!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030419 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit addressing a References: <9fa75d42.0304250937.36a7897e@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 20:12:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.155.224 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1051474340 162.84.155.224 (Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:12:20 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:12:20 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:62792 comp.object:62119 comp.lang.ada:36660 misc.misc:13762 Date: 2003-04-27T20:12:20+00:00 List-Id: Dave Harris wrote: > Most compilers only implement a subset of it. I think there is only one > compiler which claims to fully implement the "export" keyword, and that > only in the last year or so. There's not much point learning syntax that > doesn't work :-) The "export" concept was a pure invention of the standardization committee, designed (poorly) to assuage those interests who demanded some form of separate compilation of templates. The people who finally implemented it think it's useless, but some of the rest of us aren't so sure.