Comment by ergonaught
3 hours ago
It still amuses me, but Andrei's books were the "last straw" that pushed me away from C++ for many years. Great books, truly, and they helped cement the notion that I wanted to move on to a different language. (Go, at the time.)
I seriously hated the book, too. The title should have been "Cute template tricks to make you feel smart and increase compile time, when to use: approximately never". I think about two things from the book caught on, one of them how to deal with lists of template arguments pre C++11. It's kind of horrible, but was sometimes (more or less) necessary.