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Robert A Duff wrote:
> Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> writes:
> 
> 
>>We should keep in mind that the STL begun life as an Ada library.  See
>>the famous Stepanov interview at
>>http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/drdobbs-interview.html  His contact with Ada
>>generics was crucial for the development of C++ templates and the STL.
>>He move to C/C++ for career reasons and basically he (consulting with
>>Stroutstrup) created C++ templates because he needed generics in C++ to
>>do there what he had done in Ada!
> 
> 
> Career reasons?  I believe Stepanov is on record as stating that at
> least part of the reason for using C++ is that the STL can be programmed
> more efficiently in that language than in Ada.  I *think* he was talking
> about Ada 83.  And I think he was mainly referring to the ability to
> make pointers into the middle of an array, and to do address arithmetic
> on them.  The former is easy in Ada 95, and the latter is possible,
> although it requires jumping through some hoops.

Stepanov was definitely talking about Ada 83.

--Larry