Er...[if you have the misfortune of being paid to work in Java] they remove a pile of type-casting cruft and make code more useful to large and/or transient tea

Er...[if you have the misfortune of being paid to work in Java] they remove a pile of type-casting cruft and make code more useful to large and/or transient teams. The author conveniently glosses over the type-casting from pre-generics Java and instead compares to Ruby. Duh...of course Ruby is a cleaner read. But compare learning a new API: // pretty evil List<Thing> getTheThings(); // really evil List getTheThings(); Or iteration: // pretty evil for (Thing t: getTheThings()) {...} // kill me now for (Iterator it = getTheThings().iterator(); it.hasNext()) { Thing t = (Thing) it.next(); ... }