At 10:37 PM -0500 3/14/97, Bill Beckwith wrote: >Bikin' Bob wrote: >> >> Daniel Wengelin wrote: >> >> > Fellow Teamers, >> <<snip>> >> > Then comes a few unverified rumours that ObjectAda >> > (or any of the other compilers that I have not personally used >> > recently) barfs on the third level of generic instantiation, or >> > something. >> >> We've been using VADS Self for Win32 intensively for the past couple of >> years, and it has problems that are caused by the use of generics. I >> won't go into details here on the list, if you want to know more, e-mail >> me. >> >> Even though I'm NOT a C/C++ proponent by any stretch of the imagination, >> it doesn't seem to be helpful to our cause that a compiler that costs as >> much as VADS, and that is held out to be the best available, has >> problems such as we've seen here. > >I am very sympathetic to the problem you have experienced with VADS. >However, if find that Ada programmers have much higher expectations >of their compilers than C++ programmers. > >You just would believe how unbelievably bad some of the C++ compilers >are when you use the features like templates and exceptions. Since >not all C++ compilers support these features many C++ programmers >avoid these features. GNAT passed g++ in quality a long time ago. >And don't even get me started on the state of Java compilers right >now ... > >-- Bill Bill -- Appletmagic seems to be generating byte codes OK -- oh, that's right it's an Ada compiler! Mike ------------------------------------------------------- Michael Stark NASA/GSFC Phone: (301) 286-5048 Code 552 Fax: (301) 286-0245 Greenbelt, MD 20771 e-mail: [log in to unmask] "The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry" -- Bill Mauldin -------------------------------------------------------