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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: meaningfully/compellingly "advertising" Ada on StackOverflow
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"Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com> wrote in message 
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> Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
>
>> Did you try implementing that with the Tree container as opposed to using 
>> a
>> raw nodes? Probably not quite as fast, but much less work to
>> write/read/maintain (since the container does the storage management and
>> provides most of the algorithms).
>
> The aim is to see how languages stack up. By using the standard containers
> with their anti-tampering and other checks, you would be hobbling Ada in
> this case.

That depends on what axis you are considering "stacking up". You're probably 
right about the performance axis, but what about the readability/consiseness 
axis? There could be a *lot* less code using the tree container (since 
complex operations like iterations and storage management are built-in).

That's of course the problem with such sites (for all languages) -- there's 
almost always a choice of implementation techniques with any general purpose 
language, and one size does not fit all (you never get the best 
readability/performance/writability/maintainability with a single design).

                        Randy.