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Remove outdated mention of Java having no generics #3107

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## Genericity

The last characteristic of Scala we will explore in this tutorial is
genericity. Java programmers should be well aware of the problems
posed by the lack of genericity in their language, a shortcoming which
is addressed in Java 1.5.

Genericity is the ability to write code parametrized by types. For
genericity. Genericity is the ability to write code parametrized by types. For
example, a programmer writing a library for linked lists faces the
problem of deciding which type to give to the elements of the list.
Since this list is meant to be used in many different contexts, it is
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