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  1. Path: mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU!aet
  2. From: aet@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Bert THOMPSON)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
  4. Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
  5. Date: 11 Apr 1996 09:30:24 GMT
  6. Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne
  7. Message-ID: <4kijfg$500@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
  8. References: <3134D499.653E@ix.netcom.com> <4jgv6t$hon@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <4k3cdo$np5@taurus.adnc.com> <DpEJnu.DDL@news.hawaii.edu> <Dpo600.DzG@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
  9. NNTP-Posting-Host: mundook.cs.mu.oz.au
  10.  
  11. clgonsal@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Carl Laurence Gonsalves) writes:
  12.  
  13. |The biggest feature I see missing from Java would be generics. 
  14.  
  15. The Espresso project at Karlsruhe(?) are working on
  16. adding to Java some features from functional languages, including
  17. generics (aka `polymorphism' in functional circles.)
  18.  
  19. Maybe Sun will release a forward-compatible Java2 with some 
  20. of the improvements people are proposing.
  21.  
  22. Bert
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  24. Bert Thompson                                               aet@cs.mu.oz.au
  25. "This sentence is true." 
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