[ALACPP] Notes -- Chapter 3

[Kevin Scaldeferri <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Continuing through Alexandrescu (chapter 3 now), the thought that keeps
coming to me is, why not just write in a functional language? The
techniques of template meta-programming draw so heavily from functional
techniques; so much that to someone familiar with them, the term
"meta-programming" just sounds like hype. If you were using a more
powerful programming language, there wouldn't be anything "meta" about
it. I mean, he talks about typelists as if they were the second coming,
but there's nothing remarkable about them. Virtually every language
other than C can do it without the need for all these gymnastics.


Interesting question. We know that OCaml is essentially as fast as C for
a wide variety of simple benchmarks. I wonder if there are any
comparisons for more real life applications.

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