A Brief History of Templates
Understand the history and fundamentals of C++ templates, tracing their origins from early generic programming concepts to modern standardization and the development of the Standard Template Library. Learn how templates evolved into a powerful feature enabling versatile and efficient code abstraction in C++.
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Template metaprogramming is the C++ implementation of generic programming. This paradigm was first explored in the 1970s, and the first major languages to support it were Ada and Eiffel in the first half of the 1980s. David Musser and Alexander Stepanov defined generic programming in a paper called “Generic Programming” in 1989, as follows:
“Generic programming centers around the idea of ...
