NOTE 
For a quick overview of templates, see The C++ Programming Language (Stroustrup), or The C++ Primer (Lippman). Templates are useful whenever you want to define a family of classes or functions that is specialized for a number of different types, rather than one that works with only a single type. They are also extraordinarily useful for generating boilerplate, for example, generating a derived class in a stereotypical way.
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