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From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better!
In-Reply-To: ark@research.att.com's message of Tue, 7 Jan 1997 17:33:33 GMT
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In article <E3nFFy.C17@research.att.com> ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) writes:

> > However, if I remember correctly, Alex Stepanov had earlier tried to
> > implement a library like the C++ STL in Ada, but was incapable of
> > doing it. This would indicate that the C++ template mechanism is more
> > flexible than the Ada generics.
> 
> What Alex told me about that effort was that he was unable to find
> a single Ada compiler that implemented the standard accurately enough
> to enable him to do what he wanted to do with his library.

 10+ years ago...  I wonder how well then he would have been able to
get a C++ compiler to do anything with any kind template ...  AFATG,
_today's_ C++ compilers have had more than their share of trouble with
these - and with the STL too.

/Jon
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