I would have thought so but fast forward to today and we have template abuse that cause very long build times and creates gigabytes of symbols that flood memory and crash compilers and take debuggers to their knees and create the most inscrutable code to read and debug that MACRO jockeys could never have dreamed of.

I'm working on a C++ project where maintainers have had to resort to changing namespaces to single letters as a grotesque stop gap against the symbol table explosion!