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davo11
on Feb 7, 2009
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Ask HN: When was the last really transformational ...
both these are outgrowths of C++ features - templates and rtti, which I saw first in the early 80's but were probably around earlier.
BigZaphod
on Feb 7, 2009
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I'm not sure when type-safe generics came on the scene (perhaps that was C++), but introspection/reflection has been around since Smalltalk at least.
wheels
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Wikipedia says Ada:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_programming#Generics_in...
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