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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: why learn C?
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* 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.