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What (who) is genericity - definition

WAY OF DESIGNING AND WRITING PROGRAMS WHERE ALGORITHMS ARE WRITTEN IN TERMS OF PARAMETRIC TYPES ENABLING EASY REUSE
Genericity; Parameterized class; Instantiation of template; Template class; Template specialization; Parameterized type; Generic algorithm; Template specialisation; Generic types; Generic type; Generic class; Generic datatype; Generics in Ada; Comparison of programming languages (generics)

genericity         
<programming> The possibility for a language to provided parameterised modules or types. E.g. List(of:Integer) or List(of:People). (1996-05-19)
generic programming         
<programming> A programming technique which aims to make programs more adaptable by making them more general. Generic programs often embody non-traditional kinds of polymorphism; ordinary programs are obtained from them by suitably instantiating their parameters. In contrast with normal programs, the parameters of a generic programs are often quite rich in structure. For example they may be other programs, types or type constructors or even programming paradigms. (1997-11-22)
Generic programming         
Generic programming is a style of computer programming in which algorithms are written in terms of types to-be-specified-later that are then instantiated when needed for specific types provided as parameters. This approach, pioneered by the ML programming language in 1973,

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Generic programming

Generic programming is a style of computer programming in which algorithms are written in terms of types to-be-specified-later that are then instantiated when needed for specific types provided as parameters. This approach, pioneered by the ML programming language in 1973, permits writing common functions or types that differ only in the set of types on which they operate when used, thus reducing duplication. Such software entities are known as generics in Ada, C#, Delphi, Eiffel, F#, Java, Nim, Python, Go, Rust, Swift, TypeScript and Visual Basic .NET. They are known as parametric polymorphism in ML, Scala, Julia, and Haskell (the Haskell community also uses the term "generic" for a related but somewhat different concept); templates in C++ and D; and parameterized types in the influential 1994 book Design Patterns.

The term "generic programming" was originally coined by David Musser and Alexander Stepanov in a more specific sense than the above, to describe a programming paradigm whereby fundamental requirements on types are abstracted from across concrete examples of algorithms and data structures and formalized as concepts, with generic functions implemented in terms of these concepts, typically using language genericity mechanisms as described above.