Jon Stewart on 5 Jun 2003 21:54:01 -0000 |
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Re: [ALACPP] Notes -- Chapter 3 |
> 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 -- Jon Stewart stew1@xxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ alacpp mailing list alacpp@xxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/alacpp