> was enough of a pain in C, that it was not done for 25 years As i wrote in another reply, that might be one way to read the situation - especially if you wan

> was enough of a pain in C, that it was not done for 25 years As i wrote in another reply, that might be one way to read the situation - especially if you want to create a narrative where languages like C without generics have inherent faults - but another way is that it was there for 25 years because it wasn't an actual problem in practice so nobody bothered to fix it until now.