Templates taking too long to compile and producing ridiculous error messages is actually one of, if not the, major complaints Yossi has about C++, though. One o

Templates taking too long to compile and producing ridiculous error messages is actually one of, if not the, major complaints Yossi has about C++, though. One of the rarely spoken of differences between C and C++ is that the latter has a ludicrously slower compile leg of the compile/edit/debug cycle, and once you start digging into it, the slowness of compilation is built into the language (basically, matching template specializations is computationally hard), and is not an artifact of so-called "poor implementations."