Re: Will Java kill C++?

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From: Bert THOMPSON
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:30

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clgonsal@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Carl Laurence Gonsalves) writes:

|The biggest feature I see missing from Java would be generics. 

The Espresso project at Karlsruhe(?) are working on
adding to Java some features from functional languages, including
generics (aka `polymorphism' in functional circles.)

Maybe Sun will release a forward-compatible Java2 with some 
of the improvements people are proposing.

Bert
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Bert Thompson                                               aet@cs.mu.oz.au
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From: aet@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Bert THOMPSON)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
Date: 11 Apr 1996 09:30:24 GMT
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