Understanding Templates: why can't anybody do it?

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 17.03.2012 22:19, schrieb 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.

I agree 100% with you.

Still I would like to remark, that at least from my work colleagues, the 
ones with problems to make proper use of algorithms and abstractions, 
are the ones without CS background.