Generic programming, partial evaluation, and a new programming paradigm
Christopher A. Landauer, Kirstie L. Bellman · 1999
We describe in this paper a new approach to Generic Programming that combines our integration results with Partial Evaluation methods for adaptation. Our approach supports Partial Evaluation by providing much more information than is usually available, including explicit meta-knowledge about the program fragments and their intended execution environments. We make some ambitious claims here, so we provide some detail about our methods, to justify our interest and expectations. We are not claiming to have solved the problem; only that we think our methods circumvent some of the know difficulties that were previously identified or encountered in approaches to Generic Programming.