Programming with generic interfaces presents some great advantages. It makes it very easy to add new functionality while writing a minimum of code. However, there are dangers. It places more of a ...

Concepts, Stroustrup writes, are intended to complete C++’s support for generic programming as initially envisioned. “The purpose of concepts is to fundamentally simplify and improve design.

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While C is widely used, Kalb says it doesn’t support the abstractions, generic programming and object-oriented programming that C++ can.