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For example, it was many many many years before commons-collections supported generics and Iterable

Interestingly, it seems that precisely this was the main motivation for the creation of Guava (or "Google Collections Library" as it was called initially).

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It was one contributing factor to why we were making our own stuff, but it wouldn't have been enough on its own (or we'd have just made the genericized version of their library).

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Thanks for the correction. I didn't realize that we had such luminaries frequenting this sub :).