{"id":3232,"date":"2011-03-24T13:42:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T18:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2011-03-24T13:44:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T18:44:46","slug":"dot-net-c-sharp-generics-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/dot-net-c-sharp-generics-history\/","title":{"rendered":".NET\/C# Generics History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/dsyme\/archive\/2011\/03\/15\/net-c-generics-history-some-photos-from-feb-1999.aspx\">Don Syme<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookcomputing.com\/blog\/archives\/dotnet-generics-history\">Charles Cook<\/a>):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/dsyme\/archive\/2011\/03\/15\/net-c-generics-history-some-photos-from-feb-1999.aspx\"><p>What would the cost of inaction have been? What would the cost of failure have been? No generics in C# 2.0? No LINQ in C# 3.0? No TPL in C# 4.0? No Async in C# 5.0? No F#? Ultimately, an erasure model of generics would have been adopted, as for Java, since the CLR team would never have pursued a in-the-VM generics design without external help.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Syme (via Charles Cook): What would the cost of inaction have been? What would the cost of failure have been? No generics in C# 2.0? No LINQ in C# 3.0? No TPL in C# 4.0? No Async in C# 5.0? No F#? Ultimately, an erasure model of generics would have been adopted, as for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3234,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}