Linked by Rüdiger Klaehn on Thu 5th Aug 2004 05:00 UTC
One of the most awaited features of Microsoft .NET 2.0 is generics. Generics promise to increase type safety, improve performance, reduce code duplication and eliminate unnessecary casts. The most obvious application of generics in the framework class library are the generic collections in the new System.Collections.Generic namespace. Much has been written about those, but they are not the topic of this article.
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C++ templates are a compile-time feature much like a macro preprocessor
Andreas:
You're right; I should've been more detailed.
Comparing a macro preprocessor with a Turing-complete 'found' language like C++ templates, and says the one is 'much like' the other could be an indicator that one hasn't been looking at http://boost.org of late, nor read stuff like http://www.moderncppdesign.com/book/main.html or http://www.josuttis.com/tmplbook/
When you don't have time to delve into every technology (and who does) some (like me) key in on statements like the above as litmus tests for whether the author is worth reading.