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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl)
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"Kevin Cline" <kevin.cline@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> As promised in the Ada popularity thread, I have taken one of the
> Charles examples and reimplemented it in C++.  I used only the
> standard C++ language and libraries.  The Ada/CHARLES main program
> body is 118 (non-blank) lines of code, plus an additional 40 lines of
> instantiations in eight other specification files, for a total of 158
> lines and 9 files.

Why were all of the files needed? For a program of this size, I would have
nested the specifications in the body. (One possible reason was the old
restriction on nesting of tagged type extensions. Ada 2005 has eliminated
this restriction, so that particular issue will go away soon.)

                             Randy.