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Static polymorphism wasn’t part of OO originally; in Smalltalk, everything was late-bound. And you can of course write things generically even in the “classes and methods” kind of OO, but I think the culture around that paradigm encourages coding non-generically. You might say OO itself works toward genericity, but some OO-branded languages work against it.



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