Operator overloading or alternatives to expression templates

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 00:27:45 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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

I do think it says more about C++ than it does about expression 
templates.