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From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: The Next Microsoft?
Date: 2000/05/06
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On Fri, 5 May 2000, Bill Greene wrote:

|Hyman Rosen wrote:
|> 
|> ...
|> Ada has nothing like it [STL], since it is missing automatic instantiation
|> of generics.
|
|Ada must have something like it, since Stepanov ported STL from Ada to
|C++.
|

That's not 100% correct. You can check out the Stepanov interviews linked
from my site for more on the STL history, and Stepanov views on Ada and
C++ generics.

You can also find some of the orignal paper on the Ada generic library.

Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il
http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ehudlamm <== My home on the web 
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