Generic programming can also be used to write efficient libraries. Stroustrup hopes to see his ideas come to fruition in C++ in fewer than three years. Concepts, Stroustrup believes, ...

A new draft to add support for generic programming to Go is centered around the concept of contracts, which are used to constrain type parameters to types and functions. The draft also introduces ...

Diego Dagum provides an overview of C++ templates, and how its generics differ from C# and Java. By Diego Dagum; 12/20/2012; C++ templates are all about generic programming, but not the type of ...

"Although generics have clear use cases, fitting them cleanly into a language like Go is a difficult task. One of the first (flawed) attempts to add generics to Go dates back all the way to 2010.

Take your coding to the next level by learning advanced programming with generics. Here's how to use generic methods with type inference, type parameters, and wildcards in your Java programs.

The creator of generic libraries for Java release latest extension to Sun's JDK Dallas, Tex. — Recursion Software, Inc., formerly Objectspace, Inc., pioneered the first set of generic libraries for ...

Now look at a more generic version, Stock2 (see Listing 2). Notice that in Stock2, there are no individual data members; there is just a hashtable that holds them all. There are also no accessors or ...

Mixing generics and functional programming simplifies writing some extensibility libraries tremendously. For example, combining these techniques makes it easy to create a generic Undo library. By Bill ...