Article: New D language pumps up programmer productivity Options

[Jascha Wetzel]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Article: http://www.linux.com/feature/124320
>>
>> Reddit: http://programming.reddit.com/info/65uh7/comments/
>>
>> Digg: 
>> http://digg.com/programming/D_programming_language_pumps_up_programmer_productivity 
>>
> 
> Note in the comments how someone (not me I promise!) latches on to the 
> specious arguments in the FAQ for why strings need to be included as a 
> language feature.  Those dubious arguments should be removed.  A better 
> argument is that it allows compile-time string manipulation.

i'm not argumenting against that, but i think it's rather impressive, 
that the mere inclusion of std::string and std::vector bloats a single 
c++ file to >480kb after preprocessing. considering the simple and 
fundamental nature of these things, that is already bad enough for me to 
want built-in dynamic arrays and strings.