Archive for January, 2011

Hating that which you don’t understand

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

A 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…)