wasting development time (was)

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 02:10:59AM +0000, Brandon Van Every wrote:
> John Ochiltree wrote:
> > Andy Freeman wrote:
> >
> > ,snip>
> >> Van Every seems to think that C++ templates are a heavy duty tool.
> >> They're not.
> >
> > Thanks Andy. How for instance would BVE deal with a return type that
> > could not be foreseen.
> 
> FORSEE it, dammit!  Geez, do you guys just sit around all day writing up
> code for abstract problems that are not sitting in front of you??!?  My
> development time is precious, I have to concentrate on what I need to get
> done!

I think that's the point -- if you have a flexible language, you can waste
less time forseeing, and spend more time working.

-Andrew.