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- From: sandvik@sgi.com (Kent Sandvik)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:24:34 -0800
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Message-ID: <AD928E629668235490@150.166.131.189>
- 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>
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- In article <Dpo600.DzG@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,
- clgonsal@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Carl Laurence Gonsalves) wrote:
- >The biggest feature I see missing from Java would be generics. After
- that
- >would be functions as objects. That's in order of haow useful I'd find
- >these things to be. I've never had a use for multiple implementation
- >inheritance, and I've never seen any example that really needed it.
- >(I'm not saying they don't exist. I've just never seen such a case, and
- >can't think of one.)
-
- I would like to mix in assertion debugging behavior into AWT framework
- classes, or in general into any classes that are fixed in a single
- inheritance hierarchy. It becomes a little bit tedious to always copy and
- paste the same method into each class I need it inside... In C/C++ I could
- at least use macros for this. Anyway, that's one reasonable case. Then
- again I'm no big fan of multiple inheritance, it makes design look like
- spagetti in the worst case.
-
- --Kent
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- Kent Sandvik, Silicon Graphics, Inc. Member of Technical Staff
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