The non-ideal state of generics in Java mostly stems from having to maintain compatibility with early versions of Java that did not have generics. If James Gos

The non-ideal state of generics in Java mostly stems from having to maintain compatibility with early versions of Java that did not have generics. If James Gosling had "rushed" and copied generics Verbatim from CLU or Ada, Java would have had a very decent generic implementation. Not necessarily a perfect one, but it wouldn't suffer from the serious issues that C++ and Java suffer from (and more or less ONLY C++ and Java suffer from).