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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Dummy
Date: 2000/02/04
Date: 2000-02-04T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcc9010rffu.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3899DB45.B481F8E2@averstar.com

Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com> writes:

> Java and Ada are approximately equal in "safety" when it comes to 
> "object-oriented" types.

An important difference is that when you have some sort of container,
Java doesn't keep track (at compile time) of the types of the contained
objects.  In Ada, a generic can do that quite nicely.

- Bob




  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-02-04  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-02-02  0:00 Dummy Simic_10111
     [not found] ` <3898C380.BC01EC03@earthlink.net>
2000-02-03  0:00   ` Dummy Hyman Rosen
2000-02-03  0:00     ` Dummy Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-03  0:00       ` Dummy Hyman Rosen
2000-02-03  0:00         ` Dummy Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-03  0:00     ` Dummy Gautier
2000-02-03  0:00       ` Dummy Hyman Rosen
2000-02-03  0:00     ` Dummy Tucker Taft
2000-02-04  0:00       ` Dummy Florian Weimer
2000-02-04  0:00         ` Dummy Robert A Duff
2000-02-05  0:00           ` Dummy Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-02-10  0:00             ` Dummy Geoff Bull
2000-02-07  0:00         ` Dummy Hyman Rosen
2000-02-07  0:00           ` Dummy Florian Weimer
2000-02-07  0:00             ` Dummy Hyman Rosen
2000-02-04  0:00       ` Robert A Duff [this message]
     [not found] ` <389c50a6.14707859@news.flash.net>
2000-02-04  0:00   ` Dummy Marin D. Condic
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2000-01-11  0:00 Dummy Simic_10111
2000-01-11  0:00 ` Dummy Ehud Lamm
2000-01-11  0:00 ` Dummy Gautier
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