The subtlety (also missed by the parent comment) is that he specified template metaprogramming, not templates in general. As I understand it, template metaprogr

The 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.)