OSNews article about C++09 degenerates into C++ vs. D discussion

[Bill Baxter]

Don Clugston wrote:

> Well, now that we have IFTI and tuples(!) I seriously don't think any 
> template affectionado is likely to evaluate D negatively in that regard.
> Once the word gets around, I think there'll be a lot of defections.

Metaprogramming in C++ is OOP in C all over again.  Sure you can do it, 
but...  they definitely didn't have that in mind when they designed the 
language, so it ain't gonna be pretty.

--bb