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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: State of the compiler market
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:16:22 +0200
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On 28/06/2017 15:54, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> 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,

Only if I need it untyped. The core idea of generics is that you can 
create polymorphism outside types just by substituting different formal 
generic parameters into a piece of code. I don't believe this cannot be 
achieved through dynamic polymorphism.

> without them you can't do much.

This requires a demonstration.

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

I have my reservations about having a large standard library. It is nice 
to have some things ready to use but it also makes people lazily 
choosing a solution which may be not suitable for the problem at hand.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de