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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org>
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Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: 12 Sep 2004 09:50:37 +0200
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> Granted that the C++ code is using the equivalent of Ada's unbounded_string,

And is quite different beast than :

   type String is array (Positive range <>) of Character;

> I'd hardly call this a nightmare.

You can't have C++ strings object everyware. A lot of function are built using
char* in the spec.

Pascal.

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