Some C++ wizards took Greenspun's 10th rule as a challenge and developed templat...

		cmars232 on Sept 22, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do some people like difficult programming lang... Some C++ wizards took Greenspun's 10th rule as a challenge and developed template metaprogramming libraries like Loki and Boost :P Its kind of interesting to observe how C++ typelists do compile-time metaprogramming, they use a cons linked-list of types in templates. Its kind of sad to watch though because there's no REPL to set the cons free.

Now that's an interesting thought--a two-stage compiler to replace C++: C with a LISP preprocessor.