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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: 23 Mar 2005 16:52:35 -0500
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"Jerry Coffin" <jcoffin@taeus.com> writes:

> In addition, one of the major arguments the Ada fans have used here is
> that Ada's strings are built-in, NOT added as a class like in C++.

*Some* Ada fans have used that argument, but I'm an Ada fan, and I don't
agree with it.  I happen to think that (other things being equal) it's
better to put functionality into libraries than to build them into the
syntax and semantics of the language.

- Bob