From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: OT: What was the first programming language to use 'generics'?...
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:47:51 GMT
Date: 2005-08-19T02:47:51+00:00 [thread overview]
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Martin Dowie wrote:
> ...and were they called 'generics'?
>
> Not Ada but I just know /someone/ here will know this! ;-)
The Ada-83 Rationale (available at the AdaIC) lists a number of earlier
languages with generics of some sort: EL1, Simula, Clu, and Mary.
--
Jeff Carter
"Now look, Col. Batguano, if that really is your name."
Dr. Strangelove
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2005-08-18 9:18 OT: What was the first programming language to use 'generics'? Martin Dowie
2005-08-18 11:29 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-08-19 16:25 ` Charles Lindsey
2005-08-18 21:11 ` David Trudgett
2005-08-18 21:36 ` Robert A Duff
2005-08-18 23:43 ` David Trudgett
2005-08-19 2:13 ` OT: What was the first programming language to use Larry Kilgallen
2005-08-19 9:44 ` David Trudgett
2005-08-19 14:22 ` jayessay
2005-08-19 15:08 ` OT: What was the first programming language to use 'generics'? Robert A Duff
2005-08-19 18:09 ` jayessay
2005-08-19 15:42 ` jayessay
2005-08-19 2:47 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2005-08-21 17:33 ` adaworks
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2005-08-23 7:03 ` adaworks
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