title: the Nice programming language as an alternative to Java generics
body: <p>I've been reading Bruce Eckel's <a href="http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Thinking In Java</a> and in the chapter on generics, he briefly mentions the <a href="http://nice.sourceforge.net/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Nice programming language</a> as something that handles parametrized types better than Java, but compiles into Java bytecode.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any experience with this? Generics make my head hurt, so the prospect of an alternative that interoperates with Java is appealing... but I sort of feel like it would be like trying to learn both French and Quebecois and getting yelled at if I get them mixed up in the wrong context. (no offense meant so please don't ding me for not being PC) And whoever thought up the name "Nice" should be shot, since it makes it impossible to search for any websites other than the sourceforge one.</p>