Eric Kolotyluk wrote:
| I'm tempted to live on the edge, forgoing the compile time safety of
| generics, and live with run-time errors just to make the code more
| readable.
There's the middle road: use only those parts of generics that you understand and leave the rest for later (if ever). You can benefit from then without ever getting past "List<Shape>". (And you can't really avoid them; java.lang.Class is generic.)
| Generics have pushed Java out of the category of small elegant languages
| and into the same class as Ada and C++.
Unfortunately, given a choice, programmers as a class reliably choose big, ugly, powerful languages over small, elegant ones. How many Pascal programmers are there these days?
Glen Fisher
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