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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 4719)
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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-genericprogrammingisaboutexploitingthestructureofdatawhen 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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Book Title: Datatype-Generic Programming
Book Subtitle: International Spring School, SSDGP 2006, Nottingham, UK, April 24-27, 2006, Revised Lectures
Editors: Roland Backhouse, Jeremy Gibbons, Ralf Hinze, Johan Jeuring
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76786-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-76785-5Published: 30 November 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-76786-2Published: 29 November 2007
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 372
Topics: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Programming Techniques, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Software Engineering, Data Structures, Logics and Meanings of Programs