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coliveira
on Oct 17, 2009
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Is Functional Abstraction Too Clever?
> C# designers are constrained by the need to market their language to Java developers
No, because C# had generics before Java.
weavejester
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Well, the C# 2.0 specification was written in 2002, but the compiler was only released in 2005, a year after Sun released J2SE 5.0. So from a implementation perspective, Java had generics before C#.
mechanical_fish
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Oops. My ire is misplaced, then.
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No, because C# had generics before Java.