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Basic got generics long time ago in Visual Basic.NET.

I have been coding since early 80's, naturally I have delivered lots of production code without generics.

Oberon, one of my favorite language family and influence to Go, which I used for a while, also did not had generics.

But that was in 1996, when generic programming was WIP in ANSI C++, ML compilers were starting to be adopted, Ada was too expensive, Java and .NET were yet to come.

In 2017 I only use static typed languages without support for genericity when forced to do so.