general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup. First released in 1985 as an extension of the C programming language
duplicate code. Generic programming was introduced to the mainstream with Ada in 1977. With templates in C++, generic programming became part of the repertoire
Partial template specialization is a particular form of class template specialization. Usually used in reference to the C++ programming language, it allows
The Standard Template Library (STL) is a software library originally designed by Alexander Stepanov for the C++ programming language that influenced many
entire program and template and types cannot have more than one definition by translation unit. It is defined in the ISO C++ Standard (ISO/IEC 14882) 2003