Everything about Generic programming

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Generic programmingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Generic implementation of path design for spray deposition: Programming schemes, processing and characterization for cold sprayingInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: CoriolanusThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The Generic Nature of Optimality Conditions in Nonlinear ProgrammingCited 56 times
5. Go sideways: Template (C++)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Template metaprogrammingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The Generic Nature of Optimality Conditions in Nonlinear Programming

  J. E. Spingarn, R. T. Rockafellar · 1979 · Mathematics of Operations Research · 56 citations

• Solving multiobjective linear programming problems — a generic approach

  Huey-Kuo Chen, Huey-Wen Chou · 1996 · Fuzzy Sets and Systems · 34 citations

• Generic Correctional Programming for Mentally Ill Offenders

  José B. Ashford, Kai W. Wong, Katherine O. Sternbach · 2008 · Criminal Justice and Behavior · 30 citations

• A generic optimising feature extraction method using multiobjective genetic programming

  Yang Zhang, Peter I. Rockett · 2011 · Applied Soft Computing · 29 citations

• Generic functional programming with types and relations

  Richard Bird, Oege De Moor, Paul Hoogendijk · 1996 · Journal of Functional Programming · 28 citations

• Staged generic programming

  Jeremy Yallop · 2017 · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · 23 citations

• Generic Algorithm for Generalized Fractional Programming

  H. J. Chen, S. Schaible, R. L. Sheu · 2008 · Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications · 18 citations

• Leveraging Graphical User Interface Automation for Generic Robot Programming

  Tudor B. Ionescu · 2020 · Robotics · 18 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Generic implementation of path design for spray deposition: Programming schemes, processing and characterization for cold spraying

  Hongjian Wu, Shaowu Liu, Wenbo Li · 2023 · Surface and Coatings Technology · 11 citations

• CrowdKit: A Generic Programming Framework for Mobile Crowdsensing Applications

  Zhiwen Yu, Lele Zhao, Helei Cui · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing · 10 citations

• Domain-Independent Dynamic Programming: Generic State Space Search for Combinatorial Optimization

  Ryo Kuroiwa, J. Christopher Beck · 2023 · Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling · 7 citations

• A generic approach to conference scheduling with integer programming

  Yaroslav Pylyavskyy, Peter Jacko, Ahmed Kheiri · 2024 · European Journal of Operational Research · 6 citations

• Generic Programming with Extensible Data Types: Or, Making Ad Hoc Extensible Data Types Less Ad Hoc

  Alex Hubers, J. Garrett Morris · 2023 · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · 6 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• CoriolanusWilliam Shakespeare · 1721
• Autobiography of a YogiYogananda Paramahansa · 1946
• Step on a CrackJames Patterson, Michael Ledwidge · 1658
• The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesSuzanne Collins · 2020
• Computer ConceptsJune Jamrich Parsons, Dan Oja · 1996
• Systems Analysis and DesignAlan Dennis, Barbara Haley Wixom · 2000
• JavaScriptDavid Flanagan · 1996
• Learning PythonMark Lutz, David Ascher · 1999

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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