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by iainmerrick 2817 days ago
Just lost out in a photo finish, then (over a span of 5 or 6 years...!)

But Generic Java was started in 1998 (IIRC originally as part of Pizza). It seems reasonable to say that Java covered this ground first.

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Faire enough I forgot about Pizza.

Although what Java got wasn't all of Pizza, which had better generics.