Bradford Larsen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Jacques Carette <care...@mcmaster.ca> wrote: > >> I have heard generic programming described tongue-in-cheek as "the kind of >> polymorphism that a language does not (yet) have". I find this description >> rather apt, and it matches fairly what I see called 'generic' in various >> communities. But who said this, where and when? >> > I seem to > remember reading something along those lines in ``Datatype-Generic > Programming: International Spring School, SSDGP 2006, Nottingham, UK, > April 24-27, 2006, Revised Lectures'', edited by Backhouse, Gibbons, > Hinze, and Jeuring. I've got that book in my office - I'll check tomorrow. I read the preface before I posted on -cafe, and it wasnt' there. I'll read further in, see if I can spot it.
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