My first email to Walter, ever

[Xinok]

On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 03:03:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 4/26/04 6:54 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I was bitching to myself and then together with a friend 
>> (e-meet
>> [...]) about how hard it is to do metaprogramming in C++. He
>> mentioned D is much better at it, and we browsed the online
>> documentation for D's templates
>> (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/template.html), which we noticed
>> (apologies if I am wrong) is not much more more than a
>> cleaned-syntax version of C++'s templates, which in turn are
>> [...].

You may hold a different opinion today, and my opinion is 
worthless this point. But my two cents, I think (1) static-if and 
(2) making templates independent of classes and functions were 
both huge steps forward.