Why don't other programming languages have ranges?

[Don]

bearophile wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>> In my humble opinion, the design of Java, C#, and Go is proof 
>> that their authors didn't get the STL. Otherwise, those languages would 
>> be very different.
> 
> I don't believe you. Among the designers of Java, C# and Go there are people that are both experts and smart. C# designers have shown to be sometimes smarter than D designers. So I think some of them 'get the STL' and understand its advantages, but despite this in the universe they have found some other reasons to refuse it. I think they were unwilling to pay the large price in language complexity, bug-prone-ness, code bloat and compilation speed that C++ and D are willing to pay.
> 

> Here you can find why C# designers have refused C++-style templates & STL and chosen the generics instead:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/it-it/magazine/cc163683%28en-us%29.aspx

IMHO, that link strongly suggests that they didn't grok the STL. The 
pathetic arguments they give look to me like an attempt to rationalize a 
decision they'd already made.