Re: JDK 1.5 support?

[Bryce McKinlay]

Tom Tromey wrote:

> Andrew> The hardest thing would seem to be the generics (Java's
> Andrew> templates -- is it or me or does it seem strange that Java
> Andrew> 1.5/5.0 is basically bringing back in lots of C++ features,
> Andrew> mainly as a result of C# having them?).
>
> I think there's no question that Java is being strongly influenced by
> C#.
>  

For what its worth, C# currently doesn't have generics (or templates), 
and generics for Java were in development long before anyone had heard 
of C#, so this isn't a case of Java copying C# features. That isn't to 
say I don't think cherry-picking a few more features from C# wouldn't be 
a good idea, of course ;-)

Regards

Bryce