From: Otis Bricker <obricker@...>
Date: 2006-07-06T23:54:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Grails

"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com> wrote in
news:W9Xqg.131093$771.114444@edtnps89: 

>     Thanks, that was interesting.
> 
>     It sounds like, a best, the Java team and the C# team were
>     essentially 
> developping generics at the same time. So I don't think what happened
> was the Java people were like "Oh crap, C# has generics! We better get
> it in Java ASAP!" Rather, I think there was a lot of academic research
> of generics at the time, and both teams (coincidentally?) felt "now"
> would be a good time to implement generics into their languages, where
> "now" is 1.5 for Java, and 2.0 for C#.
> 
> 

Check out http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=14

The basics were there for Generics long before they shipped. As JSR 14, it 
was one of the first changes proposed and Example implementations were 
available in the form of GJ and PolyJ back in 1998. 

OB