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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8eff44ec1bcf8433 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-16 08:19:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!nntpserver.com!hub1.nntpserver.com!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator-la!news-in-la.newsfeeds.com!news-in.superfeed.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9qctpn$lil$1@news.huji.ac.il> <2Lfc16Vz$Jac@eisner.encompasserve.org> <9qfgl7$7sb$1@news.huji.ac.il> Subject: Re: Container reqs Message-ID: <_dYy7.31331$ev2.37751@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:19:22 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:19:22 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14690 Date: 2001-10-16T15:19:22+00:00 List-Id: In article <9qfgl7$7sb$1@news.huji.ac.il>, Ehud Lamm says... > >One advantage of naming the containers using the STL or Java library names >is to reduce some of this educational effort. >Most interfaces are well known, and we should have differences only when >they really matter. I'd argue that. They are only well-known to C++ and Java users. In fact, even all C++ users aren't familiar with the STL. Many use the MFC instead, and many many more use C++-- and have never seen the libaray. Certianly I'd think a lot of your students would be unfamiliar with any language. Or perhaps things have changed a great deal since I went to school. I'd say it would be more important that things are simply intelligently named. That's what's going to help reduce the educational effort the most. If that happens to match up with some stuff in the STL, MFC, or Java library, so be it. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.