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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Angry new C++ programmer: GENERIC CODE?
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Date: 25 Nov 90 05:51:08 GMT
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In article <6907@plains.NoDak.edu>, jmork@plains.NoDak.edu (James Mork) writes:
|>   I am still digging my way into C++ but I am angry to find no
|> facilities for generic code--as in Ada.  Can you do this?  Why didn't
|> they put this in? 

Angry? That's pretty strong. After all, you don't have to program in Ada
any more (calm rational statement designed to defuse yet another language
war). I don't know when the first implementations will appear, but I
believe the next version of C++ will be version 3.0, and the biggest
new feature will be templates, which do what you want.
--
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu