OT: on IDEs and code writing on steroids

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

dsimcha wrote:
> Not sure I agree.  C++ templates were probably intended to be something like
> generics initially and became Turing-complete almost by accident.

That is factually correct. It was quite a hubbub on the C++ 
standardization committee when Erwin Unruh wrote a C++ program that 
wrote prime numbers in error messages. See http://tinyurl.com/oqk6nl

Andrei