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From: "kevin  cline" <kevin.cline@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: why learn C?
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On Mar 30, 4:09 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:44:31 +0000 (UTC), Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
> > * kevin  cline wrote:
> >> "The big difference is that C++ templates allow type checking during
> >> compile-time, so that no overhead neither in memory space nor in
> >> runtime is incurred. In this respect, C++ templates ARE MORE POWERFUL
> >> than Ada generics."
>
> > This is correct. C++-Templates itself are a Lisp dialect and Turing complete.
>
> One should be careful with such statements. In fact it is apples and
> oranges, because whatever power templates might have, they are *not*
> executed on the target machine.

So what?  The discussion was about compile-time type safety, and the
point is that C++ templates, being Turing complete, allow more
thorough compile type checking than is possible in Ada.