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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3413256b2f4bedfc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsread.com!newsprint.newsread.com!newsfeed.news2me.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT: What was the first programming language to use 'generics'?... References: <43045094_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net> In-Reply-To: <43045094_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:47:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.240.111.56 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1124419671 4.240.111.56 (Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:47:51 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:47:51 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4182 Date: 2005-08-19T02:47:51+00:00 List-Id: 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 31