[boost] Re: FC++ -- Formal Review Result

From: Nicolas Fleury (nidoizo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-08 12:43:53

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> "Object-orientation" was invented in '60s and was deemed only of
> intellectual values, available only in experimental or heavy
> environments; C++ took it from research labs and put it in the 
> hands of Joe Programmer.  With success.
> Generic programming has been around since the '70s (albeit without
> that name) and deemed only of academic values; C++ took it and put it
> in the toolkit of Joe Programmer.  With success.  I have hopes it will
> eventually do the same for functional paradigm. 

But is metacode (or equivalent) really about functional paradigm, or 
more about ways to do things easily at compile-time?  You could build 
classes at compile-time with procedural-like code and maybe that would 
put the capability with more success in the hands of Jow Programmer than 
with something more like Lisp?  I really don't know the answer...

Regards,

Nicolas