In a comment of a Google+ announcement about new C# features, Stephan did react about my naive enthusiasm about SmartPascal.
Apart from the fact that he did miss the numerous ways of creating Windows executable in this dialect (I quoted at least 5 diverse ways), he was chocked by the fact that the SmartPascal syntax, in its actual idiom, does not support generics.
But are generics mandatory?
I'm not speaking about any drug identified by its chemical name rather than its
brand name (Wikipedia).
I would neither comment on the current Delphi implementation of generics (which
may appear not so polished, nor very widely used, even in the Delphi RTL/FMX,
but for TList<T> TDictionary<>).
Just share some thoughts about what is, to my opinion - which may be wrong and
biased! - the most important part of today's programming.
