Re: Ada Generic vs. C++ Templates

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <MPG.1532ab1cc6ed7b4989682@news.chello.at>, Josef Widder says...
>
>As project for university i'd like to compare the power of the Ada 
>Generic construct relative to C++ templates.
>
>Could someone please tell me where to find good articles on the generic 
>construct ?

One thing you should be sure to mention is portability. All Ada compilers must
adhere to (and are tested against) the same standard. In contrast, C++ compilers
all seem to implement templates differently. The Mozilla developers have gone so
far as to ban the use of templates for this reason (in fact, its rule #1 in
their portability guide). See
http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/portable-cpp.html#dont_use_templates . One could
say that for code meant to be portable, C++ templates have no power at all, as
they can't be used. :-)

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