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Re:Why Generics? by rsc on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:47PM (#20578367)
> Rot in hell forever, Josh. And take your Effective Java with you to throw on the pyre.

Well that seems uncalled for.

Re:Why Generics? by hinkley on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @06:54PM (#20579450)
It’s fairly difficult to come to terms with an “everything was going pretty well until...” moment and doubly so when it can be personified.

Once we broke LSP, a cascade of similar ideas started showing up with regularity, especially in J2EE. I used to be able to go on at some length but now it’s more “I hope I never meet this guy because it’ll be awkward as hell.”