Essential language support for generic programming

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 73-84

  Siek, Jeremy ^a   Lumsdaine, Andrew ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C++; Generic programming; Haskell; Polymorphism; Standard ML

Indexed keywords

C++; GENERIC PROGRAMMING; HASKELL; POLYMORPHISM; STANDARD ML;

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33745282954     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: 03621340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1064978.1065021     Document Type: Article

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