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Have Generics Killed Java? (artima.com)
2 points by pragmatic on July 22, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



No. For the collections (which have opposite type needs from things like hoping for generic functions and control structures), the ability to write things like Map<Integer,Map<Integer,Double>> (poor man's sparse matrix) are a bit win for readability.


I love generics in C# (well as well as one can love a language feature like that) but the generics in Java aren't the same apparently. I haven't used Java since this addition. Any opinions from regular Java users?




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