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That just seems like a big stretch. No templates means no STL. The STL is a pretty big jewel in the C++ crown at this point. No templates and no STL means we'd
by UncleOxidant 6y ago
That just seems like a big stretch. No templates means no STL. The STL is a pretty big jewel in the C++ crown at this point. No templates and no STL means we'd have some kind of container libraries with long inheritance hierarchies kind of like what we had in the 90's prior to the introduction (and implementation in compilers) of templates.
- quietbritishjim 6y agoThe subtlety (also missed by the parent comment) is that he specified template metaprogramming, not templates in general. As I understand it, template metaprogramming refers to deeper uses of templates to do compile-time programming. (I interpreted his British-rooted understatement in the same way as the parent comment.)