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The ML language family does, other functional languages (the LISP family, Erlang) don't.


Arguably lisp doesn't NEED generics since unless you go around setting lots of type pragmas, the typing system generally doesn't intrude.

So, in other words, Lisp doesn't have generics in the same way Python doesn't have generics.




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