Raymond Chen has a great quote: "Good advice comes with a rationale so you can tell when it becomes bad advice. If you don't understanding why something should be done, then you've fallen into the trap of cargo cult programming, and you'll keep doing it even when it's no longer necessary or even becomes deleterious." http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/11/04/9917052...
How dare you simply tell a newbie C++ programmer "Template meta-programming and 'modern C++' ... will only end in tears" without providing a rationale or at least the details of whatever bad experience you had with it. The world has enough cargo cult programmers and enough people who do convoluted things to avoid using some language feature that they believe is "bad" without really knowing why they think it is bad.
Here's my rationale: I've worked on projects that were 1 million lines of code and took a minute or longer to link because of the overuse of templates.
How dare you simply tell a newbie C++ programmer "Template meta-programming and 'modern C++' ... will only end in tears" without providing a rationale or at least the details of whatever bad experience you had with it. The world has enough cargo cult programmers and enough people who do convoluted things to avoid using some language feature that they believe is "bad" without really knowing why they think it is bad.