<blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Can you please explain when have you missed them? Because after writing
quite a bit of Go code, and talking with other people that has written
even more Go code, almost nobody has found this to be an issue.<br></blockquote><br><br>This is such a crap argument, I don't even know how to counter. Perhaps instead of trolling the D mailing list (and reddit and HN), you should put that effort into fixing your [what I and many "other people" believe to be an] inherently broken pet language.<br>
<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Pillsy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pillsbury@gmail.com">pillsbury@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
uriel_follower wrote:<br>
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> Pillsy Wrote:<br>
[...]<br>
<div class="im">> > At this point I'm mystified as to why language designers just keep<br>
> > on making this same mistake by leaving support for generic<br>
> > programming out of their statically typed languages. Java and C#<br>
> > had to graft generics onto their languages after the fact; why<br>
> > ignore that?<br>
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> Can you please explain when have you missed them?<br>
<br>
</div>I haven't even bothered trying Go because lacking support for generics is so obviously the Wrong Thing[tm].<br>
[...]<br>
<div class="im">> Specially now the new append() builtin has taken care of most of<br>
> the remaining cases where generics might have been marginally<br>
> useful.<br>
<br>
</div>Wait, why did they need to introduce a *whole new builtin*? Why should this have to be builtin *at all*?<br>
[...]<br>
<div class="im">> Because nobody ever reused any code in languages without<br>
> generics!<br>
<br>
</div>Re-using code in statically typed languages is harder if they don't have generics.<br>
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And after seeing people say, "Oh, yeah, you really don't need generics in our language!" a few times only to sheepishly bolt them on a few years later doesn't inspire much confidence this time around.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">Pillsy<br>
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