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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> P.S. Stepanov arguing for generics (templates) claimed that the reason
> why C++ needed this mess was impossibility to write Max using dynamic
> polymorphism... I believe it is possible to have a language where
> generic Max and Swap could be written without generics.

I've been wanting to look up how Ada generics work.  C++ generics are
implemented with templates which leads to a horrible mess, but generics
themselves don't have to be a mess, as far as I know.

Some comparisons:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.110.122&rep=rep1&type=pdf