Jonathan Shewchuk (the image above is I believe a mesh rendering of his face that can be found on his homepage. Please don't sue me...I'm a nice person...) wrote an essay that articulates better and adds to my list of grievances on my blog entry on the same subject. I'm actually in the painful process of trying to convert my professor's code from using LEDA to using Shewchuk's Triangle for generating a Delaunay mesh for a set of points.
Read the "Three Sins of Authors in Computer Science and Math" here.
By the way, Templates Are Evil and should never be allowed to exist. Ever.
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