RE: [GD-General] Compile times

[Kent Q. <ken...@co...>]

Every programmer in Codeville liked templates a lot
But the Hook, who lived just west of Codeville did NOT.

The Hook *hated* templates! The whole template thing.
If you want to ask why, then just give him a ring.

It could be that templates are just macros in drag.
It could be that templates made his build process lag.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
Is that his disk drive is two sizes too small.

But whatever the reason, his lag or his macros,
The Hook stood there hating templates down to his toes.
For tomorrow he knew all the coders and geeks
Would use STL to avoid memory leaks

They'd stuff data in vectors!
They'd use maps and lists!
And the thought of a deque...
Well, that just got him pissed.

And then they'd do something
That he liked not a bit
Every last one of them,
The fat and the fit
Would go out on the newsgroups
And start talking about it!



         Ok, the joke's running thin. :-)
         Apologies to both Dr. Seuss and Brian...

                 Kent


At 01:34 PM 12/9/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>The above is exactly what I mean.  STL is the devil's tool, I stand very
>firmly on that.  I completely dislike the way C++ has made templates,
>which are effectively glorified search and replace macros.  It leads to
>code bloat, and changing any of your template code causes massive
>cascades of rebuilds.
>

Kent Quirk, CTO, CogniToy
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http://www.cognitoy.com