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by pjmlp 23 hours ago
You mean how Ada, Delphi, D, OCaml compile?
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And your point is?

They didn't know how to do it "correctly" -- it took outside help from Philip Wadler (who helped with Generics in Java) to make it work acceptably.

Of course the core team were a big bunch of dumb old stupidheads and they made a dumb language for dumb people, so you win, you're smarter than them.