I think the Java culture plays a big part in the whole mess. It would be easily possible in other languages to write 4 implementations of a basic list or publi

I think the Java culture plays a big part in the whole mess. It would be easily possible in other languages to write 4 implementations of a basic list or public setter/getter for every member or buffered stream interfaces for all kinds of I/O. Its not done because long solutions are frowned upon.