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Subject: Re: Manifesto against Vector
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 16:58:09 -0400
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"Peter C. Chapin" <pchapin@sover.net> wrote in message
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> "Marius Amado Alves" <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> 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

As a programmer of both Ada and C++, I too am glad.  When I have to use Ada,
I sorely miss the STL.  Of course, when I have to use C++, I miss unique
(new) types derived from primative types...and ranges (oh how I miss
ranges!), oh and arrays as first-class types.