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by mkehrt
4199 days ago
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Re Java generics: Nope. They came out of UPenn's featherweight java work, see here: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/fj-toplas.pdf Pierce literally wrote the book on type theory. Swift is written by type theorists; large chunks of the people who worked on it has a PhD (or part of one) in PL theory. |
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