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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - A leitmotif in the evolution of programming paradigms has been the level and extent of parametrisation that is facilitated - the so-called genericity of the paradigm. The sorts of parameters that can be envisaged in a programming language range from simple values, like integers and oating-point numbers, through structured values, types and classes, to kinds (the type of types and/or classes).Datatype-generic programming is about parametrising programsby the structure of the data that they manipulate. Toappreciatethe importanceofdatatypegenericity,oneneedlooknofurther than the internet. The internet is a massive repository of structured data, but the structure is rarely exploited. For example, compression of data can be much more e ective if its structure is known, but most compression algorithms regard the input data as simply a string of bits, and take no account of its internal organisation. Datatype-genericprogrammingisaboutexploitingthestructureofda tawhen it is relevant and ignoring it when it is not. Programming languages most c- monly used at the present time do not provide e ective mechanisms for do- menting and implementing datatype genericity. This volume is a contribution towards improving the state of the art. The emergence of datatype genericity can be traced back to the late 1980s.

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