Emerging Languages Conference next week!

[Nick Sabalausky]

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
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> Walter Bright:
>> Inforworld writeup on it mentions D on page 2:
>> http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/mirah-brings-ruby-niceties-java-430
>
> From the text:
>
>>The idea with D is to push complexity into the compiler so user code is 
>>simple and elegant, he said.<
>
> It's the first time I read such comment about D :-) I am not sure it's a 
> right comment. Lately I have seen the opposite, moving complex numbers and 
> associative arrays out of the compiler...
>

I think the main point there is that it's "behind-the-scenes" from the 
viewpoint of the user of the language instead of actually having to be right 
there in the user's own code. Whether some of that hidden complexity is in 
the runtime, in the language proper or in the std lib (albiet to a slightly 
lesser extent) is an implementation detail from the perspective of anyone 
who isn't actually working directly on one of those three (or on an 
alternate implementation of one).