D - more or less power than C++?

[clayasaurus]

Mike Capp wrote:
> In article <duab09$1arn$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
>> I started a new thread for this:
>>
>> "Mike Capp" <mike.capp at gmail.com> wrote in message 
>> news:dua67i$12cr$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>>> 7. D has all (well, most of) the power of C++
>> I see this often and am a bit perplexed by it. What power do you feel is 
>> missing?
> 
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> 
> Drifting off-topic: in my not-very-original opinion, the killer app for the Next
> Big Systems Programming Language will be the ability to take advantage of
> multi-core hardware. (Almost certainly through some sort of functional approach
> with compiler-verifiable restrictions.) C++ at this point is constitutionally
> incapable of making that leap. It'll be interesting to see whether D can.
> 
> cheers,
> Mike
> 
> 

Some links about multi-core systems.

http://news.com.com/For+Intel,+the+future+has+two+cores/2100-1006_3-5349121.html

http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/cellcompiler.index.html
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/451/eichenberger.html

~ Clay