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Java Gets Templates

Posted by timothy on from the blanks-to-fill dept.

lastberserker writes "Call them all you want - generics, parametrized types, thingamagic mumbojumbo - but (tada!) Java gets templates in 1.5 release. Nice landing after 5+ years of dancing around a bush. Competition is good, pardon my pun."

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  1. Re:OMG templates totally rule! by __past__ · · Score: 3, Flamebait
    So, what else is still missing from the language?
    • Metaclasses
    • Higher Order Functions
    • Multiple Inheritance
    • Multimethods
    • Integration of primitive types and classes
    • Makros
    • A GUI library that is not dog slow (Swing) or bothers you with memory management (SWT)
    • A Free implementation. Maybe a standard would help, too.
    Feel free to complete...
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