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> Ada. It's what Java should have been to begin with. And OCaml/ML is what Ada should have been. Generics 10 years before Ada AND type inference. So, languages
by nearestneighbor 17y ago
> Ada. It's what Java should have been to begin with.
And OCaml/ML is what Ada should have been. Generics 10 years before Ada AND type inference. So, languages have been going downhill since then: OCaml -> Ada -> Java, although with Scala being a kind of ML superset, one might say they're attempting a full circle.