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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
: It seems clear to me that in both the Java and C# cases, generics are
: being added as an afterthought by people who don't really understand
: them.

Wasn't that Norman Cohen in the Java case? Yes, according to
http://java.sun.com/javaone/javaone2001/pdfs/2733.pdf

The recent Java-with-generics compiler works fairly well.

:> Microsoft is now explaining what is wrong with Java.

Eiffel has generics too, Bertrand Meyer travelled the world
in order to explain .NET. Is one to draw conclusions from this?