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Computer Programming/Generic programming
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Generic Programming is a style of programming where algorithms and other programming bits use unspecified data and class types. This means that one could write a function such as Multiply<T>(T a, T b) and later pass on an integer as a and b, or a long integer, or any other type of variable. This is most useful in strongly-typed languages, as weakly-typed languages have no need for them.