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Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:


> Even generics can be left as they are once the need of having them 
> disappear. You just move to them the Annex J.
> 

You need generics in a strongly typed language, without them you can't do
much.

More needs to be done in the standard library, like other languages include
things that are expected as standard.