I felt "generics" became the term of industry to contrast to templates, and then if some environment provides generics it is wholesome and good vs nasty templat

I felt "generics" became the term of industry to contrast to templates, and then if some environment provides generics it is wholesome and good vs nasty template metaprogramming. I also think in that in the context of managed environments .NET was also pushing "generics" terminology (again vs templates) at the same time, and across more languages.