Why don't other programming languages have ranges?

[bearophile]

Walter Bright:
> I think a better article is here: 
> http://windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/oreilly/windows/news/hejlsberg_0800.html

Thank you for the link.
I see they talk about the importance of 'events', and later they say:

>Indeed, if Foo is a reference type, and if we do the design right, we can share the instantiation for all reference types.<

Bye,
bearophile