Re: C++ & Templates was Re: Question about programming techniques

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 10:42:23AM +0200, Kasper Peeters wrote:
> > well ... probably templates are ok if used in moderation ... but
> > then you're not really saving all that much typing anyhow ...
> 
> You don't save typing, you save coding (and debugging, and profiling)
> of the container class library.  Moreover, your code will be readable
> for others, since any C++ programmer probably knows at least know some
> of the concepts of STL.

I never debugged and profiled glib .. yet I'm using it for all my container
needs ...

however .. I have tried unsuccesfully to debug and profile a large project
which used STL and it just wasn't all that much fun ... nested containers
get slightly weird with STL ... while they are perfectly clean with glib

George

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