Having lived through that time as well, maybe the most painful period of that was toward the end, when we I was trying to use macro-based generic containers fro

Having lived through that time as well, maybe the most painful period of that was toward the end, when we I was trying to use macro-based generic containers from the Rogue Wave Tools.h++ library. Frankly, early templates based C++ code was not all that great either. It was the introduction of the STL that made a huge difference in the usefulness of templates.