Re: [ALACPP] Notes -- Chapter 3

["Jon Stewart" <stew1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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


I, too, hate the term "meta-programming".

Programming is programming is programming. You can talk about programming, 
but you can't program about programming.

Goddammit.


Jon
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