Operator overloading or alternatives to expression templates

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 09/11/2015 08:03 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Needless to say, I did not have
> the patience (nor persistence!) to decipher those error messages; most
> of my efforts lay in copying textbook examples from the documentation
> and modifying them piece by piece, checking their compilability at every
> step, until they matched what I ultimately wanted. Writing anything
> complex directly was an invitation to be faced with an incomprehensible
> screen-filling error message (often more than one), and endless hours of
> randomly modifying random bits of syntax in hopes that the error will
> somehow, magically, go away.

All the more ironic considering Blitz++ was intended for scientists who 
were not supposed to be programmer experts. -- Andrei