Re: status of Ada STL?

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

Oh, once something gets big enough, bureaucratic and institutional inertia
begins to take over. Perhaps C++ is no better off than Ada with respect to
standardization, but I think there's a cultural difference that lets
practical results happen a bit faster. My impression is that the C++
community is a bit more willing to accept something as a de facto standard
without first getting it past ISO. (One vendor might put something out that
is useful and it gets copied by others plus or minus some implementation
variance, the users get a generally useful feature without upgrading the
standard.) With Ada, we come from a viewpoint of strict compliance to the
standard to get the advantage of portability, but that slows the process
down for getting new features into the language in some manner.

MDC
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> You clearly haven't been reading comp.std.c++ :-)
> The C++ standard bearers are no quicker at this
> than are the Ada ones.
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