I first encountered this quip on ltu:
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1926#comment-23411

However, that comment doesn't give a source either.

Cheers,
Sterl.

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Jacques Carette <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have heard generic programming described tongue-in-cheek as "the kind of
> polymorphism that a language does not (yet) have".  I find this description
> rather apt, and it matches fairly what I see called 'generic' in various
> communities.  But who said this, where and when?
>
> Jacques
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