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: 103376,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public From: Ehud Lamm Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide Date: 2000/08/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 663787903 References: <8o3s2a$9ph$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8o4bfq$v0h$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <8obv01$7hu1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <39A991F3.A8D8BED7@easystreet.com> <8ofh6j$2anb@drn.newsguy.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.huji.ac.il X-Trace: news.huji.ac.il 967532257 19460 132.64.178.45 (29 Aug 2000 06:57:37 GMT) Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Aug 2000 06:57:37 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 2000-08-29T06:57:37+00:00 List-Id: On 28 Aug 2000 nabbasi@pacbell.net.NOSPAM wrote: |In article <39A991F3.A8D8BED7@easystreet.com>, Al says... | |>All three of these languages, M2, M3, and Ada, now support generics, | |Well, generics are nice, but Java do not have them, and it seems |that half the world nowprogram in Java. So, I do not think that Borland |delphi not having generics is such a big deal for most people. | Notice that Ada generics combine nicely with inheritance, and can be used to achieve some of the goals of multiple inheritance. Java has interfaces to deal with some of the limitations of single inheritance. This is without really discussing the mertis of generic coding. I leave that for another time... Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ehudlamm <== My home on the web Check it out and subscribe to the E-List- for interesting essays and more!