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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b30bd69fa8f63cb2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-12 13:38:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.netkonect.net!btnet-peer0!btnet!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C bug of the day Date: 12 Jun 2003 21:38:03 +0100 Organization: Pushface Sender: simon@smaug Message-ID: References: <1054751321.434656@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1055450326 11866 62.49.19.209 (12 Jun 2003 20:38:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 20:38:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39065 Date: 2003-06-12T21:38:03+01:00 List-Id: kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline) writes: > Sorry, Ada doesn't solve this problem. Ada has no equivalent to the > C++ STL. > Ada is fine as long as you are happy to program using only arrays. > Beyond that, you are stuck searching the web for some public domain > components and hoping they have been debugged enough to be reliable, > or writing your own and hoping that you don't somehow screw up > new/unchecked deallocation. Well, the Ada 95 Booch Components (now GMGPL) are in use in real projects right now. There are feature requests every so often, but not that many bug reports. The main complaint is about the user documentation (or lack of it, or unclarity ..).