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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: query about ada and STL
Date: 1998/08/11
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Richard Beare wrote:
> I was recently told by someone using the c++ STL that he thought they
> were originally ported from Ada. 

Not ported, but one of the early generic library attempts by Stepanov
and Musser was in Ada. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 358,
springer-Verlag 1989 p 13-25. I think you can find it at the RPI STL 
web site too.

> I haven't been able to find much to
> support this, except a Byte article by Stepanov that mentioned some
> early attempts to make generic structures with scheme and ada. Does
> anyone know whether a significan proportion of the STL (or its
> predecessor) has ever been available for Ada?

See the online publications at adahome. 

If you're willing to put up with an incomplete, still buggy continuation
of what's there, try http://www.best.com/~bpr/agl.html

-- Brian

> Perhaps the Booch components for Ada 95 are going to be equivalent?

I thought David Weller had stopped work on this. David?

In any case, the libraries are *very* different.

-- Brian