Architectural modifications to deployed software
Science of Computer Programming
Revealing the X/O impedance mismatch: changing lead into gold
SSDGP'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Datatype-generic programming
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When I started programming computers, I began with fairly primitive languages, such as Fortran 4 and various early flavors of Basic. One of the first things you learn using such languages - indeed, even using more up-to-date languages - is which types your language supports. Being oriented toward number crunching, Fortran supported integer and real types, with the interesting rule that any variable whose name started with the letters I through N was an integer, and all other variables were floats. I'm glad that convention hasn't caught on, although Perl is close. Furthermore, using object-oriented languages, you can define your own types and in the best languages, they act just as well as built-in ones.