Saturday, October 09, 2004

Templates vs. Generics

Bruce Eckels has yet another brilliant article on Java generics. I've been trying generics out quite a bit and I continue to be disappointed. I would have been much happier if Sun had adopted the more ambitious generics projects wholesale such as Rice's Projet NextGen. Given the state of things, I would jump whole-heartedly into Nice if only it had a decent editor such as IntelliJ IDEA. At last I finally understand first-hand why Microsoft had such a grip on the C++ market with VisualStudio which way back when must have seemed pretty slick to many Windows programmers.

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