[marcus_holmes]

Agreed. I'll be banning generics from any code I have control over unless there's a very good reason for it. I saw too much of this crap in C#, and ran from it screaming.

[swirepe]

Say you need a binary heap to hold some customer records, and another binary heap to store some orders. How many times do you implement a binary heap?

[masklinn]

Apparently their answer is “five times”.

[marcus_holmes]

Well, twice at least.

I don't know why you're all so scared of a little repetition ;)