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Software is embedded in every aspect of modern society and has contributed to dramatic improvements in productivity and the development of science and technology. However, creating, debugging, and ...

In late 2003, I had the problem of making business-critical decisions and performing maintenance actions in real time, analyzing data that was passing through the servers I was charged with ...

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.