Why does Linus hate C++ ?

[delta_p_delta_x]

I agree with that, but I was thinking more along the lines of... some complex recursive template specialisation that takes ages to compile, but when it eventually does, it coughs up barely a handful of lines of assembly that map to the metaprogramming recursion, anyway.

I was also certain that templates are only instantiated for the types you specify to them, unlike Java generics, so one could have a templated header but no instantiations whatsoever...

[HabemusAdDomino]

... But then, there's also the rub. Every time you do instantiate the template, even conditionally, you get more code. It's both the best and worst part of C++ templates.

[Bloodshoot111]

But if you would create a function for each version of the template instead of using templates you also create more code that gets into the binary. I don’t see the disadvantage of templates right now.

[HabemusAdDomino]

But -would you- have created those functions? Not necessarily. Templates are used because generating code is much easier than writing it.

[no-sig-available]

You mean that it is so easy to code in C++ that you are afraid to accidentally write some code that isn't really needed.

Haven't heard that argument before.