meaning of parametric polymorphism

1. parametric polymorphism See polymorphism. paraML An extension of Standard ML which supports coarse-grained parallelism. Peter Bailey, while at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre at University of Edinburgh, has implemented Murray Coles original four skeletons in paraML. See also Skel-ML. paranoid programming A programming style that tries to prepare for the worst external conditions, including incorrect input, resource limitations, hardware and software failure and even cant happen errors, to the fullest possible extent. While some believe in the motto "professional programming is paranoid programming", the expression usually has the connotation that the efforts are unnecessary or too costly "Maybe this code is just paranoid programming, but I think it is necessary to avoid a possible overflow condition".

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