generic programming

way of designing and writing programs where algorithms are written in terms of parametric types enabling easy reuse
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generic programming

Summary

generic programming is a programming paradigm[1]. It draws 156 Wikipedia views per month (programming_paradigm category, ranking #16 of 41).[2]

Key Facts

  • generic programming's instance of is recorded as programming paradigm[3].
  • generic programming's instance of is recorded as computer science term[4].
  • generic programming's GND ID is recorded as 4431718-9[5].
  • generic programming's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh00000132[6].
  • generic programming's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 15025202q[7].
  • generic programming's subclass of is recorded as computer programming[8].
  • generic programming's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0qjrr[9].
  • generic programming's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Generic programming[10].
  • generic programming's described at URL is recorded as https://codepros.org/blog/generic-programming-in-software-engineering/[11].
  • generic programming's described by source is recorded as Taylor & Francis[12].
  • generic programming's described by source is recorded as Free Pascal[13].
  • generic programming's described by source is recorded as Q17118377[14].
  • generic programming's described by source is recorded as Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford[15].
  • generic programming's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/generics[16].
  • generic programming's Quora topic ID is recorded as Generic-Programming[17].
  • generic programming's Open Library subject ID is recorded as generic_programming_(computer_science)[18].
  • generic programming's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 7051814[19].
  • generic programming's Semantic Scholar topic ID is recorded as 59265[20].
  • generic programming's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007290696705171[21].
  • generic programming's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C7051814[22].
  • generic programming's FOLDOC ID is recorded as generic+programming[23].
  • generic programming's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/6694d3c6-dde0-42f3-9cc9-31ffbbaf1b43[24].

Why It Matters

generic programming draws 156 Wikipedia views per month (programming_paradigm category, ranking #16 of 41).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  15. [17] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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