C++ templates and cygwin?

[Robert Collins]

Chris,
    Whats your opinion on c++ template use within Cygwin. I'm not
necessarily talking the STL, just that for things like lists, derived
classes don't really suite, and recoding list traversal for the nth time
is kinda... well boring.

Also abstracting the code up one level does allow future replacement of
the list with b* trees/hash tables etc wit more ease. (And for some of
the stuff in progress that _may_ become desireable.)

Rob