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Re:Why do some people like difficult programming languages s... by cmars232 on Saturday September 22, 2007 @02:25AM (#58271)
Some C++ wizards took Greenspun's 10th rule as a challenge and developed template metaprogramming libraries like Loki and Boost :P

Its kind of interesting to observe how C++ typelists do compile-time metaprogramming, they use a cons linked-list of types in templates. Its kind of sad to watch though because there's no REPL to set the cons free.

Re:Why do some people like difficult programming languages s... by derefr on Sunday September 23, 2007 @03:15AM (#58495)
Now that's an interesting thought--a two-stage compiler to replace C++: C with a LISP preprocessor.