Rolf Howarth wrote:
| I had the pleasure (I'll let you interpret that however you choose,
| though it was quite interesting!)
Ah, yes, as in "That meal was... interesting."
| of doing a few months of C++ again
| recently. The guy I was working was very smart and highly competent
| technically but did have rather a tendency to overengineer and come
| up with needlessly complex and generic designs, based heavily on
| templates. The end result was that some simple changes that I would
| have expected to take about half an hour in Java ended up taking the
| two of us more than a week. I didn't like templates before; I like
| them even less now. I'm afraid experiences like that (and others)
| have made me very wary of generics in Java, even if they're not
| exactly the same as C++ templates.
If that were the sort of experience I'd had, I might well share your opinion. And, no doubt, generics in Java will be just as prone to misuse. As to templates and C++, all I ask is that you remember that their power *can* be used for Good as well as Evil, and to not dismiss them completely. Someday, you may find a C++ program that you could love.
Glen Fisher
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