Linked by Rüdiger Klaehn on Thu 5th Aug 2004 05:00 UTC
.NET (dotGNU too) One of the most awaited features of Microsoft .NET 2.0 is generics. Generics promise to increase type safety, improve performance, reduce code duplication and eliminate unnessecary casts. The most obvious application of generics in the framework class library are the generic collections in the new System.Collections.Generic namespace. Much has been written about those, but they are not the topic of this article.
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Eh?
by Rayiner Hashem on Thu 5th Aug 2004 17:08 UTC

This is a bit of a weird statement: "much like a macro preprocessor and are thus not a good solution for a highly dynamic language such as C#."

Macros are orthogonal to the dynamic properties of a language. Currently, the languages that have the most evolved macro systems (Lisp, Scheme), are also among the most dynamic languages available.