| J.Fairbairn: Ponder and its type system, Technical report No 31, Nov 82, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory. |
....of arbitrary element type into its integer length. It is also possible to write a generic sorting package that works on any type with an ordering relation. Other languages that used or helped develop these ideas include CLU [Liskov 81] Russell [Demers 79, Hook 84] Hope [Burstall 80] Ponder [Fairbairn 82] and Poly [Matthews 85] Finally, we should mention generic procedures of the kind found in Ada, which are parametrized templates that must be instantiated with actual parameter values before they can be used. The 7 polymorphism of Ada s generic procedures is similar to the parametric ....
J.Fairbairn: Ponder and its type system, Technical report No 31, Nov 82, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory.
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