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-Thread: 103376,3413256b2f4bedfc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed.esat.net!feeder.news.heanet.ie!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!peernews.mcc.ac.uk!news.xenopsyche.net!news.mcc.ac.uk!clerew!chl From: "Charles Lindsey" Subject: Re: OT: What was the first programming language to use 'generics'?... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.2 (NOV) References: <43045094_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net> <6fr1ed.22f.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:25:06 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4207 Date: 2005-08-19T16:25:06+00:00 List-Id: In <6fr1ed.22f.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> Jean-Pierre Rosen 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. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5