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Re:Building an efficient and portable programming language w... by jcelerier on Friday May 14, 2021 @04:03AM (#27151901)
> C++ templates are past well studied examples, and both produced awful results.

What's wrong with templates ? They give you a compile-time functional language that operates on types, isn't that great ?

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Re:Building an efficient and portable programming language w... by mbrodersen on Saturday May 15, 2021 @07:37PM (#27169937)
Imagine being able to use C++ to operate on types at compile time instead of using the verbose template syntax.
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