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> overly-complex generics-within-generics-within-generics

To me, that's a shining example of the problems I've run myself into when trying to squeeze much power out of Java-style generics. I never seem to encounter similar problems in F#. Scala, it depends on how successful I am at not losing a boot in the mud.

Generic programming was born in a language whose other pioneering features were algebraic data types and an HM type system. I've never really seen a first-rate example of one that didn't come paired with at least passable examples of the others.