Understanding Templates: why can't anybody do it?

[Simen Kjærås]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:56:14 +0100, novice2 <sorry at noem.ail> wrote:

> How it come, that we build another abstartion level above strong typed  
> language?
> Onece we builded high level language above assembler. Are we now  
> building another more high level? Will temlate will become another  
> language used as complete language? Will generic prigramming become  
> mainstream, like high level languages today?

It seems to me that templates are mostly useful for libraries. In user
code this flexibility is rarely as useful. It may however be that this
very same argument was put forth when OO was introduced.