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: 103376,604e0f87aa06eab6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-14 10:01:02 PST Message-ID: <3E72181E.8000609@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:57:50 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1047664671 198.96.47.195 (Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:57:51 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:57:51 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35333 Date: 2003-03-14T12:57:50-05:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > Microsoft is imitating Ada generics in its proposed next version of C#. > Microsoft is now explaining what is wrong with Java. This again demonstrates > that those who switched from Ada to Java did not do it for good > technological reasons. > Bob Leif > -------------------------------------------------------- > C# Programming Language Future Features > Prashant Sridharan > Microsoft Corporation > > March 2003 > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechar > t/html/vbconCProgrammingLanguageFutureFeatures.asp The problem with it IMHO, is that it uses a similarly ugly syntax and form that C++ templates uses. Gak! Does anyone know what, if anything, has happened with the research that IBM was doing with Java generics? I seem to recall a post last year that said that a researcher at IBM had prior experience with Ada, and was looking into generics for Java (perhaps my memory has muddled this somewhat). Just curious. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg