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Subject: Re: An Ada Advice Inquiry
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From: Markus E Leypold
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Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> Maciej Sobczak wrote:
>
>> The difference between Ada and C++ is that with C++ we have a set of
>> compilers to choose from, so nobody is forcing you to use the worst
>> one (unless you got locked-in, but then it's only your fault).
>> With Ada there is a set of versions of GNAT that are "somewhere"
>> between Ada95 and Ada2005, where the exact meaning of "somewhere" is
>> to be discovered by the user.
>
> That's unfair. The C++ vendors had since 1998 to implement there features -
> that's 9 years. Even there intermediate 2003 update is now 4 years old. The
> new Ada standart is only 2 month old. And still AFAIK there is still only
> one C++ compiler to support "export".

Not that Gnat in gcc 3.4 still has/had problems with variants and
finalization. That was 11 years after the standard ...

Regards -- Markus