"[Java] might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no intellectual value whatsoever."
I agree with your opinion about the STL it is indeed very well thought-out and very efficient. It is a shame that concept did not make it into C++0x[1] as it could had help STL usage by preventing the cryptic errors[2]
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"[Java] might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no intellectual value whatsoever."
I agree with your opinion about the STL it is indeed very well thought-out and very efficient. It is a shame that concept did not make it into C++0x[1] as it could had help STL usage by preventing the cryptic errors[2]
[1] For very good reason, I understood.
[2] STLFilt can help though http://www.bdsoft.com/tools/stlfilt.html