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Ioannis Vranos wrote:

> Template metaprogramming is a very useful field. I am not sure if you 
> are mentioning it as an advantage or disadvantage, it is about turning 
> run-time operations to compile-time.

I'm mentioning it as an advantage, in spite of the time that the
translation tool chain needs to execute the template metaprograms,
and in spite of the not so helpful error messages you get, currently.

It is interesting though that programmers are fond of the new
programming language called templates. A clever trick to achieve
cognitive consonance that lets people maintain both the view that
C++ is great (because of templates) and that C++ should be avoided
(because of the low level parts).

Georg