[anonymouz]

This is especially funny considering that before generics where introduced into the language, the granularity of Java's type system when it comes to containers was essentially, "Well, everything is an Object...". Thus not only was it not the first statically typed language, but for some very basic stuff the type system had to be effectively circumvented, whereby one lost all the advantages of static typing.

(Of course, C has its void pointers for the same purpose...)