From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-09-05 18:11:42 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-east!sn-xit-uk!supernews.com!195.40.0.160.MISMATCH!easynet-tele!easynet.net!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!diablo.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!gxn.net!server6.netnews.ja.net!server4.netnews.ja.net!server2.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pascal.misc Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 01:26:12 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <39B58F24.F29DFF40@brighton.ac.uk> References: <8o3s2a$9ph$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8o4bfq$v0h$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <8obv01$7hu1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <39A991F3.A8D8BED7@easystreet.com> <8ofh6j$2anb@drn.newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-b1.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 968199723 9351 194.81.199.181 (6 Sep 2000 00:22:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Sep 2000 00:22:03 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:504 comp.lang.pascal.misc:256 Date: 2000-09-06T00:22:03+00:00 List-Id: 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/). ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------