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Subject: Re: Ada Successor Language
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On Monday, June 25, 2018 at 2:20:42 AM UTC-6, Marius Amado-Alves wrote:
> This conjecture, that OO polymorphism is *always* preferrable to generics, is picking my mind big time. I've got a strong intuition that there are cases best served by generics. I'll try to find examples. Or if anyone has some please post.

I disagree with that summation wholeheartedly; one place generics are superior to OO is in sharing code. OOP is _not_ good for that purpose, despite some claims it is.