On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 00:27:45 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
On 09/11/2015 08:03 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Needless to say, I did not have
the patience (nor persistence!) to decipher those error
messages; most
of my efforts lay in copying textbook examples from the
documentation
and modifying them piece by piece, checking their
compilability at every
step, until they matched what I ultimately wanted. Writing
anything
complex directly was an invitation to be faced with an
incomprehensible
screen-filling error message (often more than one), and
endless hours of
randomly modifying random bits of syntax in hopes that the
error will
somehow, magically, go away.
All the more ironic considering Blitz++ was intended for
scientists who were not supposed to be programmer experts. --
Andrei
I do think it says more about C++ than it does about expression
templates.
