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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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On 12 Mar 2005 15:30:29 -0500, Robert A Duff  
<bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:

> 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.  I *think* he was talking
> about Ada 83.  And I think he was mainly referring to the ability to
> make pointers into the middle of an array, and to do address arithmetic
> on them.  The former is easy in Ada 95, and the latter is possible,
> although it requires jumping through some hoops.


That matches my recollection as well.