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-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!14bb18d8!not-for-mail Followup-To: yes Sender: mheaney@MHEANEYX200 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> <1110052142.832650@athnrd02> <1110284070.410136.205090@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <395uqaF5rhu2mU1@individual.net> <1110329098.642196@athnrd02> <1110361741.551255@athnrd02> <422edaec$0$26554$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <1111464133.508323@athnrd02> <423fe9df$0$11476$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> <1111524623.705533@athnrd02> <4240937b$0$9215$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <1111568536.640808@athnrd02> <42414d77$0$9217$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <1111576684.292321@athnrd02> From: Matthew Heaney User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:46:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.149.57.125 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1111632383 24.149.57.125 (Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:46:23 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:46:23 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9874 comp.lang.c++:46975 Date: 2005-03-24T02:46:23+00:00 List-Id: Ioannis Vranos writes: > Also the lack of a "STL like" library in Ada until now probably sounds > like that Ada lacks much of the high-level abstraction that C++ > provides. It had nothing to do with language features. Except for a few little things (mostly having to do with syntax), the Ada 2005 standard container library could have been written in Ada95 or Ada83.