From:	Roberto Henriquez Laurent <shl24634 AT alumnos DOT inf-cr DOT uclm DOT es>
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Subject:	Re: Quake & Demos
Date:	Tue, 03 Jun 1997 11:21:46 +0200
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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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