Steve Yegge's rant on The Next Big Language

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"BCS" <ao at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
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> To pick at a few:
> Does any language do interators for user type as language features? You 
> have to write them your self in every language I know of.

...well if you don't write the iterator for your user type, how is the 
language going to know how to iterate over it?  When Steve said "iterators 
and generators" as a 'thing to have', I think he meant that they are 
first-class primitives in the language.  Having to write a custom iterator 
for a class wouldn't change that fact.

> But *I* don't care if things come from a lib or from a feature, just how 
> well they get the job done.

I don't either.  But then you have languages like C++, where you are 
practically crippled without a library.  It's nice to have a basic set of 
powerful functionality without having to resort to the standard library to 
do the most common tasks.  D does that very well right now, but that doesn't 
mean it's perfect.