Talk:Template metaprogramming

This was redirected to Talk:Generic, but no longer needs to since template metaprogramming is now described correctly. (well, let me know if it isn't correct!-)

Wow! or Eeeewwww!

As a counterweight to the opinion below I have to say that I've never yet in any other language found another tool as powerful as templated metaprogramming. It has given me freedom to write incredibly terse and efficient code. Yes, it is difficult to get into, but then again, so is programming. It looks daunting, heck, it is daunting, but so are real-life powertools. Mikademus 18:27, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

I don't know whether to be impressed or disgusted... supposedly it was the intention of the designers of C++ to eliminate the need for macros and tricky macro-based techniques. But now it appears that when they introduced templates, they opened the door to a whole new avenue for creative, uh, hacking?

Now that I have learned about this astonishing technique, I am going to try very hard to forget it. I think I'm going to go away now and write some programs in TECO. Dpbsmith 01:41, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)

MPSH book

The book Metaprogramming GPUs with Sh actually doesn't have anything to do with template metaprogramming. The word in the title refers to run-time metaprogramming, as opposed to compile time metaprogramming. Sh is a runtime-embedded DSL in C++.

I'm not sure exactly what do with this. As one of the authors of that book, I can say that we're now avoiding the term metaprogramming more and more, because of this common confusion.

I'm leaving in the reference for now, but someone might want to either remove or clarify it.