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From: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: software ICs vs. libraries
Message-ID: <83@ateng.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 13:00:43 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 26 13:00:43 1987
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References: <1691@culdev1.UUCP> <5606@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
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In article <5606@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> adamj@widow.berkeley.edu (Adam J. Richter) writes:
>In article <1691@culdev1.UUCP> drw@culdev1.UUCP (Dale Worley) writes:
>>Another feature of "software ICs" comes from the fact that they are
>>part of an object-oriented system.  One can actually write, say, a
>>linked list manager that will work on objects of *any* type.
>
>	"Object oriented?"  What you are describing involves
>parameteized typing and polymorphic routines.

Not so.  Objective-C supports _heterogoneous_ collections.  For example, a
single Set can hold another Set, a Dictionary, an Array, and any number of
other types -- _simultaneously_.

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