Re: Unified Ada library

From: Hyman Rosen (hyrosen_at_mail.com)
Date: 04/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 03:08:56 GMT

Matthew Heaney wrote:
> Right now, I'm leaning towards (1). The thing I like about Charles is
> that it's a relatively pure port of the STL to Ada95. There are C++
> developers who think that the STL could only have been written in C++,
> and Charles is my argument that that claim is false.

Bravo. I hope you keep going with this. You will have to watch out for the
Ada people who hate and fear C++ and will seek to turn this library into
something that is more "like Ada" in their perception, and will thereby kill
it.

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