Understanding Templates: why can't anybody do it?

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 17.03.2012 21:20, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
> "Entity325"<lonewolf325 at gmail.com>  wrote in message
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>>
>> That is to say, nobody understands how Templates work is because, as was
>> the case for me, the sum total of explanation we are given on them in
>> programming class is "These are Templates.  They exist.  They look
>> something like this."
>>
>
> I've spent a total of about 6 years in college, always got A's and B's in
> the CS classes, and yet I'm convinced that programming classes are
> completely and utterly useless. Most of the instructors themselves barely
> even know how to code (among many, many other problems). So if you're
> learning programming at college, then I'm not surprised you've gotten the
> impression that nobody understands templates: Around universities, they
> probably don't. (Also, it doesn't help that C++'s templates could be a lot
> better.)
>
> I even had one CS prof, he said that the only language he knew was C. And
> yet, after seeing his feedback on my code, it became abundantly clear to me
> that he didn't even understand how strings worked (ie: C's famous
> null-terminated strings) *in the ONE language he knew*.
>

I would say that most European universities seem to provide a completely 
different experience, at least speaking from my experience in 
Portuguese/Swiss/German ones.