It's not nearly that simple. You can use template meta-programming to make expressions both easy to read and efficient, by avoiding creation of temporary obje

It's not nearly that simple. You can use template meta-programming to make expressions both easy to read and efficient, by avoiding creation of temporary objects, fusion, lifting, etc. etc. In some domains (e.g. linear algebra) this can be very powerful because you don't have write non idiomatic expressions just to feed the compiler things it can understand.