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 autolearn=ham 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: 2001-04-04 10:04:17 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!171.64.14.106!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison Sender: usenet@www.newsranger.com References: <3AC8E799.189EE51C@bigfoot.com> <3ACA4A12.9FC665D5@bigfoot.com> <3ACB4A1B.1AC1ACF7@boeing.com> Subject: Re: Ada Generic vs. C++ Templates Message-ID: Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 16:56:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.208.22.130 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com X-Trace: www.newsranger.com 986403372 209.208.22.130 (Wed, 04 Apr 2001 12:56:12 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 12:56:12 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6462 Date: 2001-04-04T16:56:12+00:00 List-Id: In article <3ACB4A1B.1AC1ACF7@boeing.com>, Jeffrey Carter says... > >Francois Godme wrote: >> >> Even more, now that the language has been written down as a standard, what >> can stop the convergence of the C++ compilers to the standard? >Where is P. Brashear when we need him? IIRC, he is involved in Ada >compiler conformance testing, and also has a C++ conformance suite. No >C++ compiler vendor has ever submitted a compiler for testing, nor has >any C++ compiler ever passed. I'd at least think it would be worth Microsoft's while to submit their compiler, so they could find and remove any portabilities. :-) Nah, easier to just write your own new langage... --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com