Hating that which you don’t understand
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011A few days ago, I came across an interesting rant about “Why C++ Templates (and STL) Are Bad”.
As any C++ programmer who reads my blog likely knows, I’m quite fond of both templates and the STL — I feel those are largely what transforms C++ from a clumsy and outmoded language that should’ve died 10 years ago, into a modern, expressive, high-performance and yes, even elegant language that I enjoy using. (more…)