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Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:
>
>"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
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> > Generics in any form is an illness of programming languages.
>
>Why?

Perhaps the origin of this feeling is that they (generics, templates, etc.)
are unclear conceptually, above the programming level. 
  But there is good exception: functors in Standard ML.