On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Jacques Carette
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?
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I don't have the book handy (it was from the library), but I seem to remember reading something along those lines in ``Datatype-Generic Programming: International Spring School, SSDGP 2006, Nottingham, UK, April 24-27, 2006, Revised Lectures'', edited by Backhouse, Gibbons, Hinze, and Jeuring. There's a lead for you, at least! Regards, Brad