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Subject: Re: What's wrong with C++?
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(I am reading and responding to this thread in reverse-chronological 
order, FYI.)

Hyman Rosen wrote:

> C++ is very susceptible to horrible runaway type names because
> it does have automatic instantiation of templates, and especially
> in the presence of template metaprogramming. Without automatic
> instantiation and partial specialization, Ada has rather less need
> for this. (Which does not mean C++ is bad, just different.)
>

I don't use templates because of the auto-instantiation, but I would be 
remiss to say that I am 100% sure that auto-generation from templates is 
not sometimes a good thing (I haven't evolved my own methods in the 
proverbial "large-scale development" scene, but isn't that an exception 
(NPI)?). In general, I find myself too removed from what's going on when 
there is auto-generation. So, I agree with your thumbs down of that. I 
think "template metaprogramming" is for those with way too much time on 
their hands (or something like that). In fact, I've seen that someone 
coined the phrase "stupid template tricks" already.