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sennalen 45 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The seven programming ur-languages (2022)

C++ has Algol roots, but I think the C++ template metaprogramming style is an ur-language of its own. You could draw some parallels with ML maybe, but they came at it from a different direction.

otabdeveloper4 45 days ago [–]

This. Misses the compile-time evaluation boat completely, even though the proverbial "sufficiently smart compiler" is based on the idea.

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