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> It seems to me that people program heavily with types because that's what compilers are really good at. Therefore that's what most languages give us. But I don't want to be constructing huge, complex type hierarchies with every application

That makes no sense, most languages with good generics support barely have type hierarchies (let alone complex one).




I must be using a different definition of a type hierarchy.... Don't C# and java both have generics and type heirarchies?


Why in god's name would you take these as references when discussing generics?


Because they're the most commonly used statically typed languages with both type hierarchies and generics?


>> [...] most languages with good generics support barely have type hierarchies [...]

> Don't C# and java(sic) both have generics and type heirarchies(sic)?

Do you have an issue with understanding the meaning of the word "good"?




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