History
Polymorphism derives from Ancient Greek πολύς (polus, “many, much”) and μορφή (morphē, “form, shape”). The earliest reference to Polymorphism is in a set of lecture notes written by Christopher Strachey called Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages. Polymorphism first appeared in the ML programming language, along with fellow concepts Inheritance (object-oriented programming) and Encapsulation (object-oriented programming). Some years later, the Common Lisp Object System was first standardised, and was essentially the first Object-oriented programming standard, which paved the way for the likes of the C Programming Language as well as the Smalltalk programming language, and eventually C++ and the Java programming language.
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