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Tim Bray, who has spoken out previously on the goodness of “scripting languages”, laments the pain caused by the combination of Java Generics, Arrays, and Comparables. Given Java’s strongly-typed nature, I think generics are a good thing, because they extend the typing protection. (If you’re going to buy in to static typing, you might as [...]