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Generic programming

The Java programming language has provided genericity facilities syntactically based on C++'s since the introduction of J2SE 5.0.


Binary search algorithm

Microsoft's .NET Framework 2.0 offers static generic versions of the binary search algorithm in its collection base classes.


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Standard Template Library

Although David Musser had developed and advocated some aspects of generic programming already by year 1971, it was limited to a rather specialized area of software development (computer algebra).

Stepanov recognized the full potential for generic programming and persuaded his then-colleagues at General Electric Research and Development (including, primarily, David Musser and Deepak Kapur) that generic programming should be pursued as a comprehensive basis for software development.