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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f92fbb4a0420dd57 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: rogoff@sccm.Stanford.EDU (Brian Rogoff) Subject: Re: some questions re. Ada/GNAT from a C++/GCC user Date: 1996/03/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 144736079 references: organization: /u/rogoff/.organization reply-to: rogoff@sccm.stanford.edu newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-03-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: Bill asked: The Ada Programming FAQ pooh-poohs STL, but I like it. (Yes, I know I could write my own versions of what I need, but a bunch of Ada programmers shouldn't need to be told that that's not the ideal solution.) This FAQ also says the Booch components library is coming Those opinions do not represent the opinions of all in the Ada community by any means. The STL is a remarkable piece of work in my opinion. There is some very nice work going on at Rensaleer rewriting STL in Ada. And while thousands of Ada 95 enthusiasts wait with bated breath for more information... :-) The ftp site for STL is ftp://ftp.cs.rpi.edu/pub/stl/. In that directory, I found two files stl2ada.ps, and stl2ada-refimp-1.0.tar.gz. Apparently, a graduate student at RPI (akonstan.cs.rpi.edu) is porting the STL to Ada 95, and plans to have it done by May. The paper discusses some issues that arose in implementing the reference port. It would be nice to merge this work with dweller's Booch Components (shouldn't they be the "Dweller Components", it sure sounds better to me ;-) and thus provide a standard data structure library for Ada 95. BTW, that is "Rensselaer", and the natives of the town are "Troylets", in case you were wondering. -- Brian