4/10 On Polymorphism [2026]

About this episode

The episode discusses polymorphism in programming with a focus on C++ and features guest Klaus Iglberger.

Inheritance, templates, function overloading - they all fall into the category of polymorphism in programming. My guest Klaus Iglberger and I discuss the different aspects of how this could be done with C++. Links https://www.stroustrup.com/glossary.html#Gpolymorphism Glossary provided by Bjarne Stroustruphttps://cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/polymorphism/https://ics.uci.edu/~jajones/INF102-S18/readings/05_stratchey_1967.pdf Christian Strachey's article where he introduces polymorphismhttp...

People in this episode

Host: Peter Schmidt

Guest: Klaus Iglberger

Topics covered

• polymorphism
• C++ programming
• inheritance
• templates
• function overloading

Keywords

• polymorphism
• C++
• inheritance
• templates
• function overloading
• programming

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Christian Strachey's article

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