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From: nabbasi@pacbell.net.NOSPAM
Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide
Date: 2000/08/28
Date: 2000-08-28T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ofh6j$2anb@drn.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 39A991F3.A8D8BED7@easystreet.com

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.
 
Nasser
 





  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-08-28  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     ` 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                       ` Larry Elmore
2000-08-28  0:00                       ` Gautier
2000-08-28  0:00                         ` Marco van de Voort
2000-08-28  0:00           ` Richard Riehle
2000-08-29  6:53             ` Marco van de Voort
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
2000-08-28  0:00                     ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-29  0:00                       ` Gautier
     [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
2000-08-27  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.
2000-08-26  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     ` Richard Kenner
2000-08-28  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           ` Al Christians
2000-08-28  0:00             ` Ray Blaak
2000-08-28  0:00           ` Gautier
2000-08-28  0:00             ` Marco van de Voort
2000-08-28  0:00         ` nabbasi [this message]
2000-08-29  0:00           ` Ehud Lamm
2000-08-29  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-08-29  0:00             ` Marco van de Voort
2000-08-29  0:00               ` Gautier
2000-08-29  0:00                 ` Marco van de Voort
2000-08-29  0:00               ` Jonas Maebe
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           ` Brian Rogoff
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
2000-09-06  0:26           ` John English
2000-09-06 16:08             ` Charles Hixson
2000-08-28  0:00       ` Marco van de Voort
     [not found] <01a101c0106f$745c3c70$cf18b70a@db2000>
2000-08-28  0:48 ` tmoran
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