Not only are generics/templates better for type safety, they are much faster than casting back and fourth. Or as they call it in .NET land boxing and unboxing.

You might often want to validate parameters in your methods to ensure they have valid data. Most importantly, you might often want to protect your publicly exposed API methods by ensuring that the ...

Anything, and I mean ANYTHING, can be abused in coding. Your prefered style, paradigm, or TLA of the minute is not an exception. If you can dream it I can abuse it. If you judge a feature of a ...