Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/06/03/10:51:09
Adam W Lee wrote:
> Third, I personally, and this obviously isn't everybody's opinion so
> please don't even bother replying to it, I just want to say it, hate
> generic programming and compilers that hold my hand... If I wanted a
> compiler that would hold it for me while I pee I'd still be using
> QuickBASIC, because it even capitalized things for me.
Generic programming (templates) allows you to pee only once per data
structure you write. I love templates because I have spent many hours
converting libraries (e.g. binary trees) from one base type to another.
Programmer's time is valuable.
> atomly
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