Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Template metaprogramming" in English language version.
C++ Template Metaprogramming suffers from a number of limitations, including portability problems due to compiler limitations (although this has significantly improved in the last few years), lack of debugging support or IO during template instantiation, long compilation times, long and incomprehensible errors, poor readability of the code, and poor error reporting.
Robinson's provocative paper identifies C++ templates as a major, albeit accidental, success of the C++ language design. Despite the extremely baroque nature of template meta-programming, templates are used in fascinating ways that extend beyond the wildest dreams of the language designers. Perhaps surprisingly, in view of the fact that templates are functional programs, functional programmers have been slow to capitalize on C++'s success
