jfd wrote: > == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article
> >> eaturbrainz > >> Back in the day I was writing a kernel, and having to > >> rewrite queues for every single type of thing I wanted > >> to queue, or use type-casts to enforce strong typing > >> of queue elements at runtime, was annoying as fuck. > > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/e49ta/go_one_year_ago_today/ > eaturbrainz's problem is what convinced me of the true value of > generics. At this point I'm mystified as to why language designers just keep on making this same mistake by leaving support for generic programming out of their statically typed languages. Java and C# had to graft generics onto their languages after the fact; why ignore that? Cheers, Pillsy
