What is generic programming?
This lecture gives an overview
of the answer to this question, beginning with the discussion in
In the slides showing the STL Container concepts (slides 3 and 4),
clicking on a concept node takes you to the corresponding Web page in
the Silicon Graphics Standard Template Library
Programmer's Guide. Try it!
A closer look at how the generic programming approach is applied
in STL is given in
More discussion of these latter slides will continue in the next lecture.
See also the Topics section for reading and homework assignments.
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