On 12/06/2013 02:52 PM, Walter Bright wrote:

> On 12/6/2013 2:40 PM, bearophile wrote:
>> I think in your list you have missed the point 8, that is templates
>> allow for
>> data specialization, or for specialization based on compile-time values.
>>
>> The common example of the first is the C sort() function compared to
>> the type
>> specialized one.
>
> That's a good example.

Bjarne Stroustrup has the article "Learning Standard C++ as a New Language" where he demonstrates bearophile's point, as well as how C++ is a better language than C for novices:

  http://www.stroustrup.com/new_learning.pdf

Ali

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