D - more power than (really) needed !

[Sebastián E. Peyrott]

In article <duogj1$22ij$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
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>"Craig Black" <cblack at ara.com> wrote in message 
>news:dun68p$30kv$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>> A lot of the bias towards OOP purism comes from Java vs. C++ comparisons, 
>> much more convincing than Anything vs. D.  Hopefully the simplicity and 
>> power of D can help to eliminate OOP purism.
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>The trouble with OOP is, well, not everything is an object. For example, 
>take the trig function sin(x). It's not an object. Of course, we could bash 
>it into being an object, but that doesn't accomplish anything but 
>obfuscation.
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>Sometimes, I think C++ went hard over in the opposite direction - nothing is 
>an object. OOP programming seems to be regarded as "oh, so 90's" by the 
>modern C++ crowd.
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>Every decade seems to have its programming buzzword:
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>60's: artificial intelligence
>70's: structured programming
>80's: user-friendly
>90's: object oriented programming
>00's: metaprogramming 
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Then, it may be in D's best interest to start thinking which will be the 10's
buzzword ;)

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Sebastián.