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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Do people who use Ada also use ocaml or F#?
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* Dmitry A. Kazakov:

> On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:27:40 -0700 (PDT), Chad  R. Meiners wrote:
>
>> I have chosen languages that support generics because quite frankly
>> after learning Ada, any statically typed language that does not
>> support generics is not a suitable language for developing anything
>> of substance.
>
> I don't see any connection between static typing and parametric
> polymorphism (AKA generics), except that both are static.

For me, it's the realization that without generics, a static type
systems tends to disallow too many useful programs.