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,effb80d4bb7716dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future Date: 1999/02/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 439831556 References: <790f4q$3l@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: nntp1.ba.best.com 917978111 16680 bpr@206.184.139.136 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Ehud Lamm wrote: > Some time ago I found on the web (sorry but I don't have the exact > reference) an article called "Implementing the C++ Standard Template > Libray in Ada 95" by Ulfar Erlingsson and Alexander Knostantinou. Those > interesetd in this question should read this. It is at www.adahome.com, in the "Online Articles" section. > It seems that one problem in implementing STL in Ada95 is the lack of > pointer arithmetic. This causes perofremance problems in real sense (to > be exact the result is worse from a complexity point of view). I don't know what you mean here. Could you explain, or provide a pointer? :-) > I might also add, to those unfamiliar witht the history of STL and generic > programming, that the first attempts at producing such a library - by > Alexander Stepanov - were in Ada. My site points to two interives with > him, that you may find of interest. Actually, a Scheme library predates the Ada one, and is predated itself by an attempt in a homemade functional language I think. -- Brian