I didn't know Syme helped with generics in .net. Very interesting indeed. I think it makes sense for these people to create their own "perfect" languages. I'm

I didn't know Syme helped with generics in .net. Very interesting indeed. I think it makes sense for these people to create their own "perfect" languages. I'm not aware of C#, but I know (or knew) Java very well. And Generics always was a half-baked option for a broken language. From a purists' perspective, in Java "everything is an object", except ints or floats, but we have Integer or BigInt, but then we have `null`, but then... if Integer extends from Number, does that mean that a List<Integer> extends from List<Number>? Nobody knows... Those things are what I feel Odersky wanted to solve and couldn't with Java, so he went "Bender Style".