Re: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

[Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>]

Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Wasn't that Norman Cohen in the Java case? Yes, according to
> http://java.sun.com/javaone/javaone2001/pdfs/2733.pdf

He's listed as a "member of the expert group". The Java generics
are particularly bad. While that presentation likes to make the
usual lies about C++ templates, what they don't tell you is that
in the Java generics the type parameters can't be fundamental
types, only Object-derived ones (look at all their examples), and
that you can't overload on generics:
     class Joe {
         void f(List<Integer> l) { }
         void f(List<Byte> l)    { }
     }
I stand by my claim.