I come not to bury C++, but to praise it...

[Peter Hansen]

Derek wrote:
> 
> "Oren Tirosh" wrote:
> > A traceback is also much less nasty than deciphering a
> > 1000-character long compiler error message reported in
> > code that uses a heavily templated library.
> 
> Absolutely correct.  But remember that ugly template-related compiler
> error messages are a reflection of current compiler technology, not a
> fundamental limitation of C++.  I suspect future compilers will make
> debugging templates much easier.

I believe I heard that claim, almost verbatim, sometime around the last time 
I was actively using C++, which was about a decade ago...

-Peter