Understanding Templates: why can't anybody do it?

[Simen Kjærås]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:16:37 +0100, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org>  
wrote:

> Am 17.03.2012 21:56, schrieb novice2:
>> 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?
>
> Generic programming is already mainstream.
>
> D, Delphi, C++, Java, Scala, Ada, C#, VB.Net, Haskell, OCaml, F#, Eiffel  
> are just a few of the current languages that support generic programming.

The languages support it. The hard part is getting programmers to use it.