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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 14:42:48 -0700
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kevin.cline@gmail.com (Kevin Cline) wrote in message news:<e749549b.0408271022.47abd0e2@posting.google.com>...
> 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.

I hate to follow up my own post, but after further research I found
that Charles does indeed provide some generic algorithms.  It also
provides a number of example applications.  It will be interesting to
pick a couple and perform a side-by-side comparison of corresponding
Ada and C++ code.