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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10261c,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: nabbasi@pacbell.net.NOSPAM Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide Date: 2000/08/28 Message-ID: <8ofh6j$2anb@drn.newsguy.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 663779529 References: <8o3s2a$9ph$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8o4bfq$v0h$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <8obv01$7hu1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <39A991F3.A8D8BED7@easystreet.com> Organization: - Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 2000-08-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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