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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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Date: 2005-03-13T04:41:34+00:00

>> Stepanov moved to C/C++ for career reasons and basically he 
>> (consulting with Stroustrup) created C++ templates because he needed 
>> generics in C++ to do there what he had done in Ada! (myself)
>
> Career reasons?  I believe Stepanov is on record as stating that at
> least part of the reason for using C++ is that the STL can be 
> programmed more efficiently in that language than in Ada. (R. Duff)

I'd like to see that record.