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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: why learn C?
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:09:25 +0200
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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.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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