From: dave@boostpro.com   
      
   on Tue Nov 08 2011, darkknight.21-AT-gmail.com wrote:   
      
   >>on Sun Nov 06 2011, darkknight.21-AT-gmail.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I've read some of your book on template meta-programming and I find it   
   >>> hard to believe that there's any real world use for such   
   >>> "gobbledegook".  I bet there's an easier way to solve whatever problem   
   >>> template meta-programming is the solution for.   
   >>   
   >>I eagerly await your solutions.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I was hoping you had one already.   
      
   Really, you were hoping I had an easier way than TMP to solve whatever   
   problem TMP is the solution for?  I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have   
   written a book about TMP in that case.   
      
   > Actually I'm just taking a wild guess that since since the original   
   > purpose of templates was nothing to do with meta programming and that   
   > (some) template meta programs look ugly and esoteric, a purpose built   
   > "meta language" could do the job much more simply.   
      
   Definitely.   
      
   > Maybe I'm just biased towards state driven procedural programming.   
      
   Could be.  Frankly I'm not sure what your position is here.   
      
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