Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >   Java supports generics.

> ...OK, I just learned something.

  Java generics are a bit ironical because before they existed the
common consensus among Java people was that C++ templates are an
abomination (in the same category as, for example, multiple inheritance,
if not even worse).

  Of course this was before all the generic programming craze, and when
it hit, the Java people had to swallow their pride and introduce some
crippled template mechanism into Java. Naturally since templates were
always considered an abomination they couldn't call them that, so they
tried to save even a bit of their pride by renaming them to "generics".
(I suppose "generics" rides more on the whole "generic programming"
thing.)

  Of course Java generics are a bit crippled because they don't support
basic types (such as int). Thus they solve only part of the problem which
Java had before.

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                                                          - Warp

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