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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f51e93dacd9c7fca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-20 05:25:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: status of Ada STL? Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:24:50 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: References: <3d0f0c40_1@news.tm.net.my> <1032444677.850496@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b1.a6 X-Server-Date: 20 Sep 2002 12:25:32 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29213 Date: 2002-09-20T12:25:32+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "I'd trade it all for just a little more" -- Charles Montgomery Burns, [4F10] ====================================================================== Hyman Rosen wrote in message news:1032444677.850496@master.nyc.kbcfp.com... > > You clearly haven't been reading comp.std.c++ :-) > The C++ standard bearers are no quicker at this > than are the Ada ones. >