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Generic programming

Published • Jan 1, 1981
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Authors:
Alan Kay

Abstract

Early generic concepts in programming languages were mixed-type arithmetic (e.g., “+” used with any combination of fixed- and floating-point numbers) and “print” functions which could be applied to any of a language's objects. Generic concepts reduce the number of terms which must be remembered and ...

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