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Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Python port development
From: Philipp Thomas (pth_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-14 08:51:04


* Gevorg Voskanyan (v_gevorg_at_[hidden]) [20100709 22:35]:

> Oh yes, templates weren't implemented that good or at all in the compilers
> when the library began to be written.

And wxWidgets (at least last I checked) continues to use macros instead of
templates. I still remember my heated discussion with one of the wxWidgets
developer eons ago in which his main argument against templates was compile
time. He also claimed that they used type safe macros ...

Philipp


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