Understanding Templates: why can't anybody do it?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Simen Kjærås" <simen.kjaras at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:20:42 +0100, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>
>> 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*.
>
> You seem to be harping on this a lot.

Sorry. I definitely *do* have a big chip on my shoulder on the matter.