Generic programming centers around the idea of abstracting from concrete, efficient algorithms to obtain generic algorithms that can be combined with different data representations to produce a wide variety of useful software.
本文系统回顾了编程范型的发展，从早期的非结构化程序到命令式、过程式、面向对象与函数式编程，探讨它们在抽象层次、控制流与数据组织方式上的差异，并进一步分析声明式与命令式编程的边界问题及其在现代计算机体系结构下的重新审视。
