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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 21:49:48 +0000 (UTC)
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Wouter van Ooijen (www.voti.nl) wrote:
>>Ada can teach C++ how to do templates properly. 
> 
> 
> I am definitely an Ada fan, but C++ templates are much much more
> powerfull. AFAIK C++ is the only language in which you can create a
> 'unit' based type system that is almost fully compile-time checked.

There is are various ways of doing this in Ada just now but they are not 
zero-cost. A new way nearly made it into the Ada2005 standard, but was 
going to take too long to 'get right' so it was dropped. Might be looked 
at again for the 5-year ISO 'mini' revision. I hope so anyway.

Cheers

-- Martin