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From: kevin.cline@gmail.com (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: 27 Aug 2004 11:22:34 -0700
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Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message news:<cgn6sd$snk$2@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>...
> Kevin Cline <kevin.cline@gmail.com> wrote:
> : However, with the introduction of the C++ standard library,
> : programming in C++ with advanced data structures is simple and fast,
> : and it's easy to avoid memory leaks, null dereferences, and heap
> : corruption.
> 
> Though given the Charles library I doubt that C++ vs Ada is a major
> issue here.

Charles is a pale imitation of the C++ STL.  It defines containers,
but provides no generic algorithms.  My Ada is now a bit rusty, but it
also appears that Charles containers can not be used with limited
types.

The author of the C++ STL started working in Ada but abandoned it
because explicit instantiation was just too unwieldy.  A single C++
template function call like this one:
    merge(c1.begin(), c1.end(), c2.begin(), c2.end(),
c3.back_inserter())

would require half a dozen lines of Ada just for the function
instantiation.