Timeline for What did people do before templates in C++? [duplicate]
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| Nov 25, 2014 at 3:01 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Nov 15, 2014 at 2:47 | comment | added | user53019 | @Joshua - Questions are closed as duplicate if the existing answers to another question address the primary inquiries behind the present question. "Exact" matches are not required; the point is to quickly match the OP with answers for their question. In other words, yes, it's a duplicate. That said, this question smacks of "OMG! How did the World exist before ...?!" which isn't a terribly constructive question. Doc Brown pointed out in an earlier (and now deleted comment) how that phenomenom can affect commentary. | |
| Nov 14, 2014 at 19:29 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Nov 14, 2014 at 19:15 | comment | added | IdeaHat | @Joshua I agree, being that a "non-c++ compliant compiler" or a "annoying workspace environment" also apply, and there might (emphasis on might) be a non-c answer. | |
| Nov 14, 2014 at 19:02 | comment | added | Joshua | This is a curious use of duplicate flag. You have no ides the question is a duplicate unless you already known the answers. | |
| Nov 14, 2014 at 18:19 | history | closed |
gnat user40980 Bart van Ingen Schenau Kilian Foth user22815 |
Duplicate of Writing generic code when your target is a C compiler | |
| Nov 14, 2014 at 14:38 | vote | accept | IdeaHat | ||
| Nov 14, 2014 at 13:41 | history | protected | gnat | ||
| Nov 14, 2014 at 13:40 | answer | added | Renan Gemignani | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 13, 2014 at 11:26 | answer | added | Rafał Dowgird | timeline score: 10 | |
| Nov 13, 2014 at 8:42 | comment | added | user122173 | Are you sure that compile-time code generation was used before the power of templates was realized? I was young then, but I am under the impression that in the old days, only the simplest sorts of compile-time code generation were used. If you really wanted to write a program to write your program, you wrote a program/script whose output was C source code, rather than doing so with template language. | |
| Nov 13, 2014 at 0:27 | answer | added | Joseph Cheek | timeline score: 7 | |
| S Nov 12, 2014 at 22:11 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Copy edited. Added some context.
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| S Nov 12, 2014 at 20:55 | history | edited | gnat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 12, 2014 at 20:52 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 12, 2014 at 19:13 | answer | added | Joshua | timeline score: 60 | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 18:40 | comment | added | user53141 | I'm not sure about Microsoft's first C++ compiler, but I'm pretty sure Turbo C++ 1.0 had no template support. | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 18:38 | comment | added | Telastyn | @DocBrown - Enh, I was writing C++ by then and outside of the notoriously shoddy visual C++ 6, template support was pretty solid. (And meta-programming was in its infancy). | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 18:36 | comment | added | user53141 | This link has interesting historical info: drdobbs.com/cpp/c-programming/184409040 | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 18:32 | comment | added | Doc Brown | @Telastyn: around the year 2000, most existing C++ compilers did not provide templates very well (even if they pretended to provide it, most of them were too buggy for producion usage). Template support was mostly for supporting generic containers, but far from the requirements to support something like Alexandrescu's "Modern C++ design" examples. | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 18:10 | answer | added | jas | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 17:23 | answer | added | zumalifeguard | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 17:07 | answer | added | Karl Bielefeldt | timeline score: 19 | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 16:57 | vote | accept | IdeaHat | ||
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| Nov 12, 2014 at 16:45 | vote | accept | IdeaHat | ||
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| Nov 12, 2014 at 16:44 | answer | added | Florian F | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 16:21 | answer | added | Robert Harvey | timeline score: 47 | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 16:19 | comment | added | AProgrammer | @Telastyn, IIRC, templates were a novelty of CFront 3 (about 1990). | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 16:17 | comment | added | AProgrammer | IIRC, old g++ distributions (pre 2.0) had a 'generic.h' header. | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 16:17 | comment | added | Telastyn | Was there a version of released C++ that did not have templates? | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 16:11 | comment | added | gnat | this probably was done same way as in plain C, see Writing generic code when your target is a C compiler | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 16:02 | comment | added | IdeaHat | @gnat Yeah I read that one. I fully believe that templates are wayyyyy better than macros, but enough people hate them that I'd like to know the alternative. | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 16:01 | comment | added | gnat | related: Are C++ templates just a kind of glorified macros? | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 15:56 | history | asked | IdeaHat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |