A decade of trolling: a brief and hopefully evocative "then and now" perspective.

1996: "Scott Nudds"

"It should be clear however, that with a sufficiently
complex preprocessor, it is entirely possible to exactly
emulate any compiled language. Compilers are exactly this
kind of preprocessor."

2006: "Ted"

"I have a template system that utilizes the preprocessor
that works quite well and avoids complex black-box
machinery that costs millions of dollars. Years ago, I
used C++ templates."

Kaz Kylheku wrote:[color=blue]
> 1996: "Scott Nudds"
>
> "It should be clear however, that with a sufficiently
> complex preprocessor, it is entirely possible to exactly
> emulate any compiled language. Compilers are exactly this
> kind of preprocessor."
>
> 2006: "Ted"
>
> "I have a template system that utilizes the preprocessor
> that works quite well and avoids complex black-box
> machinery that costs millions of dollars. Years ago, I
> used C++ templates."
>[/color]
Bugger - you beat me to it!

--
Ian Collins.