-Hejlsberg

Hejlsberg: Oh, certainly. If I give you a List typed as object, I can ask it, "What are you?" And it will say, "I am a list of customers." It'll say, "I'm a List, where T is Customer." Then I can say, "Well, why don't you give me just the System.Type for List? And in fact, why don't you bind T to Order?" And now I can make myself a List, and then I can create instances on that. Anything I can do at compile time, I can do at runtime too, through reflection, and that's tremendously powerful.
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日本語訳は、http://blog.inomata.lolipop.jp/?eid=192442
改めて、ヘジルスバーグが大好きなことがよく分かりました。遠い昔から好きだったんですよ。OWLとかVCLとか。。。世にDelphiってヤツなど。ただ、私は1997年からはもっぱらJavaをやっていたんですけどね。
とは言いながら、このギャップを埋めるべく新しい分野のJavaソリューションを準備しています。近日お披露目。意味合いはちょっと違うんですが、Anything I can do at compile time, I 'll not do at runtime.