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From: Craig Powers on 31 Mar 2008 19:02
Craig Dedo wrote:
>
> I would like to throw out a thought question:
>
> What is the best way to implement generic programming and generic
> procedures? What are the trade-offs involved in various approaches?
> What languages use the best approaches? What improvements could be made
> in those approaches? What languages do it badly and what are the
> shortcomings of those approaches?
>
> I'm looking not only for ease and robustness of implementation, but
> also robustness and ease of use in using the generic programming feature
> for developing applications in Fortran.

My main experience with using generic programming is templates in C++.
Unfortunately, I haven't used them extensively enough to comment on
their major shortcomings, nor have I used other forms of generic
programming enough to comment on the relative advantages and
disadvantages of C++. However, if you were to ask that question in a
C++ newsgroup (e.g. comp.lang.c++.moderated) you would probably get some
very good answers about the plusses and minuses of C++ itself, and you
might even get some good comparitive info from anyone who has used
another language with generic programming features.
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