There are no "templates" in the language, so the docs couldn't possibly have required you to "understand templates". You may not have understood what you read,

There are no "templates" in the language, so the docs couldn't possibly have required you to "understand templates". You may not have understood what you read, I'll grant you that. That may or may not be a fault of the documentation or the language. It could even be the fault of a hasty, pre-judging reader…