Parametric polymorphism is kinda boring in Haskell -- since it's been
there since the beginning.

We tend to reserve the term "generics" for higher order, and fancier,
polymorphism. These kinds of things:

   http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html#cat:generics

-- Don

I think he was refering to "Java Generics", this kind of things.
Java's generics are much less powerful than parametric polymorphism in Haskell.

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