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"If I wanted to fry my brain trying to figure out how to add two numbers with templates I'd go use LISP." Probably just a tongue in cheek comment, but I wonder
by felideon 16y ago
"If I wanted to fry my brain trying to figure out how to add two numbers with templates I'd go use LISP."
Probably just a tongue in cheek comment, but I wonder what he meant.
- pcarmichael 16y agoI'd guess he's referring to template metaprogramming.
- mahmud 16y agoProbably another run-of-the-mill confusion of macros for templates. "LISP" is a convenient red-herring to throw into PL diatribes; it shows the speaker has some authority since he is "aware" of Lisp, and the glowing and mystical connotations that this, vague, awareness carries.
- zedshaw 16y agoNo, more a nod to Lisp getting "metaprogramming" right when C++ screwed them up. If I've gotta do it, I'd rather do it in a language where the turing completeness wasn't designed to be a tarpit.
- mahmud 16y agoAnd there goes my attempt to trick you into becoming a Lisper :-( Learn CL inside and out, not because you want to be a better programmer, but penning "Lisp is a Ghetto", if you get it right, will guarantee your name echoes in the hallways of hacker heaven long after we're both gone.