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Original Post: Heh - MS discovers the power of loose coupling
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Ted Leung points out that Don Box is advocating a loosely coupled (dynamically typed) approach with delegates. So, as Ted asked - if getting rid of type information in a delegate situation is a good thing, what value are the type declarations providing elsewhere? Meanwhile, Sun continues to simply not get it at all - Java 1.5 will be providing C++ style templates.
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