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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada? Date: 1997/05/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 243284454 Distribution: world References: Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article clines@delete_this.airmail.net (Kevin Cline) writes: > >Just to stir things up a bit. IMO, the only good way to handle this > >sort of thing is with GC. If you have that, the entire issue isn't > >just solved, it becomes completely irrelevant. > > No question about that, but it says nothing about the usefulness of > Ada arrays for solving this problem. True enough... > >Well, despite the unsupported claims of AS, STL could be implemented > >in Ada95 without much problem. > > Never said it couldn't be done. But it hasn't been done yet. Actually, he _has_ made this claim. In fact, he recently made the even more wog boggling claim that it could not be implemented in any language _but_ C++. Of course, when several people called him on this, he could not support this rather wild claim. And the RPI people have basically done the STL, in the sense that all the bases are covered, but it needs to be brought up to a complete implementation. Brian Rogoff says he is redoing it along these lines. > >OTOH, there is really nothing in the STL that is all that interesting > >IMO. > > To me, the best thing about STL is that it makes it easier for > programmers to select appropriate data structures without having to > search the net for PD stuff, or evaluate vendors of commercial > stuff. It's all right there in the language, and eliminates the > temptation to just use an array. I suppose. But to be honest, this is really one big jumbo *yawn*... /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com