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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:49:04 +0000 (UTC)
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Kevin Cline <kevin.cline@gmail.com> wrote:
: I expect that most of Ada's features could be implemented as C++
: library code.

Are you saying that one should compare the benefits of ISO
standardised languages and feature semantics by referring to which
features could be implemented in libraries? What if the Ada fans
start talking about what is possible with ASIS (which might render
C++ template computing a poor thing)?

: But what do I do when I need the power of C++ templates in Ada?

It seems that now that the power of C++ templates has been discovered, 
hardly anyone can live without this power. One might ask how programming
problems have been solved in C++ when there was no bag of template
tricks?
 OTOH, given the quality of error messages that compilers issue for
template code, why not employ a Lisp style processor that in addition
to delivering C++ code also displays error messages that do not need
template error message code analysis? :-)


-- Georg