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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fce663eaf40b52f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news3.optonline.net!feed3.newsreader.com!newsreader.com!yellow.newsread.com!news-toy.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!POSTED.monger.newsread.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Manifesto against Vector From: "Peter C. Chapin" References: Organization: Kelsey Mountain Software Message-ID: User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 20:40:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.114.169.237 X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: monger.newsread.com 1083703257 216.114.169.237 (Tue, 04 May 2004 16:40:57 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 16:40:57 EDT Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:256 Date: 2004-05-04T20:40:57+00:00 List-Id: "Marius Amado Alves" wrote in news:mailman.67.1083691152.313.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org: > Chris, you're mostly wrong. The serious discussions about advancing Ada are > 100% free of antagonism towards C++. The arguments are always strictly > technical. Sure lessons learnt from all languages (including Ada 95) are > applied. But there's no fanatism involved. If it were we wouldn't have > Ada.Containers now, as it owes a lot to the STL of C++. As a C++ programmer in the process of learning Ada I appreciate the fact that Ada is in the process of adopting an STL-like container library. It will reduce my learning curve and that's a nice thing. Perhaps other C++ programmers will feel similarly. This is not to say that STL is the be-all and end-all of container libraries, of course. Also considering that Ada has real arrays, I can appreciate how the name Unbounded_Array makes sense. Peter