Re: OT: What was the first programming language to use 'generics'?...

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>]

In <6fr1ed.22f.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:

>Martin Dowie a �crit :
>> ...and were they called 'generics'?
>> 
>> Not Ada but I just know /someone/ here will know this! ;-)
>> 
>> 
>Not sure, but I think to remember that generics originated from Alphard

That might well be so. Alphard introduced all sorts of interesting
concepts, but bear in mind that they remained as just concepts, because
they never implemented it.

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