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From: "Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com>
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Subject: Re: status of Ada STL?
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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in
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> Unless some collection of stuff gets declared to be The Ada Answer in some
> semi-official or conventional/customary way, someone with a more
integrated
> answer (such as C++ & STL or Java and all its class libraries) is always
> going to have a hard-to-overcome competitive advantage. All the
> protestations of "But you can download one of a dozen...." or "You can
bind
> to ...." or "You can go cobble together tools from these dozen...." won't
> overcome the one-stop-shopping and integrated advantage of some competing
> languages.

I have written a library, called Charles, modeled on the C++ STL, which has
all the container types in that library (vectors, deques, lists, sets,
multisets, maps, and multimaps).

http://home.earthlink.net/~matthewjheaney/charles-20020918.zip

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