From: John English <je@brighton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 01:26:12 +0100
Date: 2000-09-06T00:22:03+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39B58F24.F29DFF40@brighton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8ofh6j$2anb@drn.newsguy.com
nabbasi@pacbell.net.NOSPAM wrote:
>
> In article <39A991F3.A8D8BED7@easystreet.com>, Al says...
>
> >All three of these languages, M2, M3, and Ada, now support generics,
> >and that gives them a big advantage over Delphi for coding without doing
> >aribtrary conversions between data types. In Delphi, the generic type
> >stored by the standard VCL collection classes is the Pointer, and the
> >program must cast it to whatever type it really represents.
>
> Well, generics are nice, but Java do not have them, and it seems
> that half the world now program in Java. So, I do not think that Borland
> delphi not having generics is such a big deal for most people.
Generics are at the top of the Java wishlist, and you can get a Java
extension (Generic Java) that implements generics in Java from
http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~pizza/gj/ (or from
http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/java/).
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2000-08-24 0:00 From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide gdemont
2000-08-24 0:00 ` James Smith
2000-08-24 0:00 ` ODRe: " Richard Riehle
2000-08-29 0:00 ` James Smith
2000-08-30 0:00 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-08-25 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-08-25 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-08-25 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-08-25 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-25 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-08-26 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-25 0:00 ` Larry Elmore
2000-08-26 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-27 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-08-27 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-27 0:00 ` tmoran
[not found] ` <017801c0105d$06e88ac0$cf18b70a@db2000>
2000-08-27 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-29 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-08-27 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-09-06 0:18 ` John English
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
2000-08-26 0:00 ` Dimmy Timchenko
2000-08-26 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2000-08-25 0:00 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-08-25 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-08-25 0:00 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-08-25 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-08-26 0:00 ` steve
2000-08-26 0:00 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-08-27 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-08-28 6:41 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2000-08-28 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Larry Elmore
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
2000-08-29 6:53 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-08-26 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2000-08-25 0:00 ` Robert Deininger
2000-08-25 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-08-27 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
2000-08-27 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-08-27 0:00 ` Al Christians
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Al Christians
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
2000-08-28 0:00 ` nabbasi
2000-08-29 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-08-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-08-29 0:00 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-08-29 0:00 ` Jonas Maebe
2000-08-29 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-08-29 0:00 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-09-06 0:38 ` John English
2000-09-08 18:41 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-09-08 19:24 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-09-09 17:50 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-09-10 16:40 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-09-11 0:59 ` Ken Garlington
2000-09-11 13:01 ` John English
2000-09-11 14:45 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-09-11 19:32 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-09-27 23:03 ` John English
2000-08-29 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-08-29 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-08-30 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-08-30 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-08-30 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-08-29 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-09-06 0:26 ` John English [this message]
2000-09-06 16:08 ` Charles Hixson
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-08-27 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
2000-08-28 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
[not found] <01a101c0106f$745c3c70$cf18b70a@db2000>
2000-08-28 0:48 ` tmoran
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