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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,103b407e8b68350b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-04 12:18:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn13feed!wn11feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!64.154.60.72!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!news.webusenet.com!news01.optonline.net!news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Hillel Y. Sims" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3E147D79.2070703@cogeco.ca> <4519e058.0301031434.51a0c880@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea.. Organization: Phat Basset Novelties, www.phatbasset.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 20:18:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.86.54.13 X-Trace: news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net 1041711512 67.86.54.13 (Sat, 04 Jan 2003 15:18:32 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 15:18:32 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32544 Date: 2003-01-04T20:18:32+00:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote in message news:av6hla$cggao$1@ID-77047.news.dfncis.de... > Kevin Cline wrote: > > > Today, the features that Ada provides have little value > > compared with the features that C++ provides and Ada lacks: > > the STL, automatic template function instantiation, > > Generics in any form is an illness of programming languages. As someone who uses C++ template functionality extensively, I find that a very odd statement and completely inconsistent with my own experience. Can you provide some rationale? thanks, hys -- (c) 2003 Hillel Y. Sims hsims AT factset.com