In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:
> > Out of curiosity, if there was a blank slate -- no Delphi-compatibility
> > to worry about -- what syntax would you have chosen?
> 
> The thing is it's not even Delphi-compatibility as we had the syntax before
> Delphi implemented its own (that's why we have "generic" and "specialize"
> keywords). 

- FPC 2.2.0 release September 2007
- Delphi 2007 with afaik most of the current generics syntax in 
  the .NET part : March 2007

We might have not aware of that at the time (who really used Delphi.NET?), but
we were definitely not the first.

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