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I guess you missed all the nice xBase, FoxPro, Clipper, COBOL, Smalltalk, C, C++ , 4GL frameworks that predated Struts.

Most of them without any kind of generics.

I never used most of these at all, and the rest I never worked with in an enterprisey context, so I can not talk about those confluences from personal experience.

Proving the point that pretending architecture astronauts appeared spontaneously after 1996 is kind out of place.

Many famous enterprise pattern books were published before 1996, even though many think they contain Java sample code.

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