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From: "David Botton" <David@Botton.com>
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Subject: Re: why not
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:03:12 -0500
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I think that the Ada culture is different than the C++ culture. We wouldn't
be determined to use a library with buggy implementations :-)

For that reason something like STL (which I am a heavy user of for many
years) which in its very design is prone to buggy implementations, difficult
to maintain and easily misused by programmers will likely never be
standardized as part of Ada.

David Botton

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
news:3BDF8C59.5020108@mail.com...

> Scott Meyers writes in _Effective STL_ that he everywhere encountered C++
> programmers who were determined to use STL despite buggy implementations
> and buggy compilers.
>
>
> I think that the equivalent library for Ada has yet to be written, because
> if it existed, there wouldn't be much argument about whether it should be
> adopted.
>