Re: Inheritance versus Generics

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Matthew Heaney said

<<A very good book that every programmer should read.  The 2nd edition has
just come out, with some egregious cricisms of Ada.  And I was naive enough
to hope that once type extension and dynamic dispatching were added,
Bertrand would like Ada.  Comments, anyone?>>

Well the world of language advocacy has always been one in which people
are very ready to criticize without much practical experience. A good rule
would be that you should not criticize a language unless you have written
substantial amounts of real delivered production code in that language.

That would eliminate Bertrand's criticisms, it would also eliminate a lot
of the criticisims on CLA of other languages.

Come to think of it, it might pretty much eliminate all language advocacy
altogether :-)