[andymorris]

When you get templates working, it does feel pretty good - you can get an approximation of the power of functional languages, all the while knowing that your code has been directly mapped to assembly.

I don't know if it's as good as writing some neat functional code, but for me it's still fun!

[eru]

If you get a decent Haskell compiler working, say ghc, you get the same warm-fuzzy assembly-feeling.