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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!kanaga.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!cernne03.cern.ch!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:37:15 +0100 Organization: CERN News Message-ID: References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1169588206.234714.312650@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1169624573.534128.172610@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <3CLth.75328$wP1.8787@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net> <1169684558.876074.40530@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: abpc10883.cern.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: cernne03.cern.ch 1169721435 2600 137.138.37.241 (25 Jan 2007 10:37:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@@cern.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:37:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061220) In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8540 Date: 2007-01-25T11:37:15+01:00 List-Id: adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote: > I have not read Christopher Grein's paper, and from what I know > of C++ and C++ templates, I am skeptical of the notion of it being > compile-time safe under any circumstances. What is there in C++ templates that makes them unsafe? > C++ templates do allow more complex variations on genericity, > and that does not contribute to type-safe software. Could you elaborate on this? Do you mean that expressiveness and flexibility go against type-safety? -- Maciej Sobczak : http://www.msobczak.com/ Programming : http://www.msobczak.com/prog/