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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Ada
Date: 2000/01/03
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tsikes@netcom.com (Terry Sikes) writes:
> There's a lot of discussion on the Java advocacy newsgroup about the
> desirability (or lack thereof;) of generics, operator overloading and
> so on.  From what I can tell, Ada provides good implementations of
> these things as opposed to C++.

C++ provides excellent implementation of generics,
and good implementation of overloading, except that
one cannot overload on return type as in Ada.

Is there something specific you believe you can not
do in C++ with regard to these abilities?