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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: 14 Mar 2005 18:23:32 -0500
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Ioannis Vranos <ivr@remove.this.grad.com> writes:

> Robert A Duff wrote:
> 
> >>However C++ has also the ideal to be able to write these libraries with
> >>the language itself.
> > As opposed to... ?
> 
> 
> ... other slimmer languages using "exotic" libraries.

Such as... ?

I'm still not understanding your point.  Are you referring to the fact
that the Java garbage collector cannot reasonably be implemented in
Java, and things like that?

- Bob