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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Dummy
Date: 2000/02/04
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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