Reminds me of Don Syme, creator of F#[1] on getting generics into .NET: >It was seeing and experiencing polymorphic programming in OCaml and SML that made us p

Reminds me of Don Syme, creator of F#[1] on getting generics into .NET: >It was seeing and experiencing polymorphic programming in OCaml and SML that made us persevere with the long and torturous process of convincing Microsoft that they should add such an "experimental and academic" feature as generics to their flagship runtime and languages. Of course we were in reality just making 1970s ideas work in practice, but at least now even Visual Basic has generics. http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2006/11/d921ca59f12d434a3f005dfd07256d91.en.html http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2006/11/d921c...