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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Inheritance versus Generics
Date: 1997/04/27
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Date: 1997-04-27T00:00:00+00:00
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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 :-)