generic programming- where did it originate?

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Im trying to work out if generic programming was a functional programming feature which was then introduced into Java, C++ and C# or did the latter copy it from the functional programming languages like Haskell, Lisp, OCaml etc?

Google is giving me lots on what generic programming is, but not where it originated. All I can see is that Ada implemented it early on.

Would you class it as a functional programming technique?

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