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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham 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: 2002-09-22 00:22:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: status of Ada STL? Date: 22 Sep 2002 00:22:52 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <3d0f0c40_1@news.tm.net.my> <1032444677.850496@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.219.89.90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1032679372 7511 127.0.0.1 (22 Sep 2002 07:22:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Sep 2002 07:22:52 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29244 Date: 2002-09-22T07:22:52+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:... > 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. This is true. There are good public domain libraries that are used today in commercial applications. The boost library (http://www.boost.org) is probably the most prominent example. It's not an ISO standard, but the software is reviewed before being accepted into the library, and the code is of high quality and is generally useful.